Screening tools for bacteraemia in a selected population of febrile children

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 192-199

  Yilmaz, Hayri Levent ^a,b   Yildizdas, Riza Dincer ^a   Alparslan, Nazan ^a   Ozcan, Kenan ^a   Yaman, Akgun ^a   Kibar, Filiz ^a  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Paediatrics ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Child; Fever; Paediatric emergency medicine; Screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SMEAR; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; NEUTROPHILS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42249086260     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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