Objectives To measure the duration of illness in ambulatory children diagnosed with
bronchiolitis and to examine clinical predictors of duration of illness. Design Validation
inception cohort study. Duration of follow up was 28 days. Setting A primary-level
ambulatory department of a public sector children's hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
Patients One hundred eighty-one children aged 2 to 23 months who went to the hospital as
their first contact for that episode of illness, and had a clinical diagnosis of bronchiolitis were …