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BMC Health Services Research BioMed Central Research article Open Access Audit of therapeutic interventions in inpatient children using two scores: are they evidence-based in developing countries? Nilton Y Carreazo, Carlos A Bada, Juan P Chalco and Luis Huicho* Address: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Instituto de Salud del Niño, Lima, LI 05, Peru Email: Nilton Y Carreazo - yhuro@; Carlos A Bada - ifocar@; Juan P Chalco - jpcho33@; Luis Huicho* - lhuicho@ * Corresponding author Published: 29 December 2004 Received: 06 August 2004 Accepted: 29 December 2004 BMC Health Services Research 2004, 4:40 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-4-40 This article is available from: /1472-6963/4/40 © 2004 Carreazo et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The evidence base of clinical interventions in paediatric hospitals of developing countries has not been formally assessed. We performed this study to determine the proportion of evidence-based therapeutic interventions in a paediatric referral hospital of a developing country Methods: The medical records of 167 patients admitted in one-month period were revised. Primary diagnosis and primary therapeutic interventions were determined for each pa