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We evaluated the archived medical records of 220 children diagnosed with severe diseases at health care centers in rural and urban settings in Mali from 2018 to 2019. Parents of enrolled children were then identified and interviewed using a structured questionnaire by an investigator blinded to the diagnosis. The diagnosis derived from the interview was then compared with the diagnosis from the medical records as the reference diagnosis. The sensitivity and specificity of the questionnaire to detect cerebral malaria in history were, respectively, 84% and 76%. The questionnaire was concordant with the medical record diagnosis in 60% (95% CI: 50\u201371%) of cases. For other clinical phenotypes of malaria (severe malaria anemia, uncomplicated malaria, and severe malaria anemia concurrent with cerebral malaria), sensitivity and specificity ranged from 42% to 85% and 88% to 96%, respectively. Positive and negative predictive values were, respectively, 75% and 85%. The questionnaire demonstrated suitable sensitivity and specificity to identify cerebral malaria in a participant\u2019s history. In sub-Saharan Africa, a region with suboptimal medical record archives, such a tool could be used in case-control studies of severe malaria to select controls.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4269\/ajtmh.23-0564","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,12]],"date-time":"2024-11-12T19:29:04Z","timestamp":1731439744000},"page":"72-78","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["A Qualitative Method To Assess a History of Cerebral Malaria in Malian Children"],"prefix":"10.4269","volume":"112","author":[{"given":"Karim","family":"Traore","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC), Faculty of Medicine and Odonto-Stomatology (FMOS), University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako, Bamako, Mali;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ali","family":"Thera","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Malaria Research and Training Center (MRTC), Faculty of Medicine and Odonto-Stomatology 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