Prediction tool for bacteraemia in children aged 3-36 months

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 353-358

  Stathakis, Tina ^a   Acworth, Jason P ^a   Barnett, Adrian G ^b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Fever; Fever without source; Prediction tool; Risk of bacteraemia

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

AGE FACTORS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PEDIATRICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547098145     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: 17426723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2007.00981.x     Document Type: Article

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