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Vital signs should be maintained as continuous variables when predicting bacterial infections in febrile children
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Objective: To determine how vital signs such as heart and respiratory rates should be included in prediction models for serious bacterial infections (SBIs) in febrile children. Study Design and Setting: Prospective observational study of 1,750 febrile children aged <16 years, visiting the emergency department of a university hospital; of them 13% (n = 222) had SBI. Common age-specific thresholds of heart and respiratory rates were used to define tachycardia and tachypnea. We compared seven...
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- Journal:
- Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
- Volume:
- 66
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 453-457
- Publication date:
- 2013-04-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1878-5921
- ISSN:
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0895-4356
- Source identifiers:
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394111
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- English
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- 2013-11-16
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