Are bedside features of shock reproducible between different observers?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 977-979

  Otieno, H ^a   Were, E ^a   Ahmed, I ^a   Charo, E ^a   Brent, A ^a   Maitland, K ^a,b  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAPILLARY REFILL TIME; CAPILLARY RESISTANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEHYDRATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INFANT; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; PULSE VOLUME; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHOCK; SKIN; SKIN TURGOR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SHOCK;

EID: 4944248436     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2003.043901     Document Type: Article

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