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cord-000237-mticfoic	Guan, Xuhua	Pneumonia Incidence and Mortality in Mainland China: Systematic Review of Chinese and English Literature, 1985–2008	2010-07-23		.txt	text/plain	5405	266	51	We conducted a systematic review of the Chinese-and Englishlanguage literature in order to describe pneumonia incidence and mortality in China, evaluate the quality of published studies, and identify gaps in the literature that can be addressed through surveillance and epidemiologic research projects in the future. Based on published recommendations for measuring quality of epidemiologic studies of pneumonia [15] , we assessed quality using the following six criteria: (1) geographic location was reported, (2) study was conducted for a period of at least one year or multiples of one year to account for seasonal factors, (3) site of case detection or surveillance location was reported, (4) age and population size of cohort of at least 50 cases were reported, (5) quality assurance and monitoring methods were employed to assure that data was complete and high quality, and (6) a clearly defined case definition (e.g., not based solely on clinical diagnosis) was used and reported. In children aged ,5 years, the highest mortality rates were reported by four studies that were each conducted in multiple regions throughout mainland China (9.55±14.40 deaths from pneumonia per 1,000 live births; Table S3 ) [21, 23, 38, 48] .	./cache/cord-000237-mticfoic.txt	./txt/cord-000237-mticfoic.txt