Guideline Maintenance and Revision: 50 Years of the Jones Criteria for Diagnosis of Rheumatic Fever

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 149, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 727-732

  Shiffman, Richard N ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CARDITIS; CHOREA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; POLYARTHRITIS; PR INTERVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUBCUTANEOUS NODULE;

GUIDELINES; HUMAN; RHEUMATIC FEVER; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0029046879     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1995.02170200017002     Document Type: Article

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