Bacteremic Elder Emergency Department Patients: Procalcitonin and White Count

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 393-396

  Caterino, Jeffrey M ^a   Scheatzle, Mark D ^a   Forbes, Michael L ^a   D'Antonio, Joyce A ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial infections; Calcitonin; Elders; Leukocyte count; Procalcitonin

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; PROCALCITONIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 1842487525     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2003.10.027     Document Type: Article

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