Physicians' ability to diagnose sepsis in newborns and critically ill children

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Fischer, Joachim E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Outcome adjudication; Prediction; Sensitivity; Sepsis; Test accuracy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL STUDENT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PREDICTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SIMULATION; WARD;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS;

EID: 19444384217     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000161583.34305.A0     Document Type: Review

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