Journal article
Sepsis and meningitis in hospitalized children: performance of clinical signs and their prediction rules in a case-control study.
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OBJECTIVE: Feverish illness is a common presentation to acute pediatric services. Clinical staff faces the challenge of differentiating the few children with meningitis or sepsis from the majority with self-limiting illness. We aimed to determine the diagnostic value of clinical features and their prediction rules (CPR) for identifying children with sepsis or meningitis among those children admitted to a District General Hospital with acute febrile illness. METHODS: Acutely ill children admit...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Publisher:
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
- Journal:
- Pediatric emergency care
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 373-380
- Publication date:
- 2014-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1535-1815
- ISSN:
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0749-5161
- Source identifiers:
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465858
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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- pubs:465858
- Deposit date:
- 2014-06-16
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- 2014
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