How well do vital signs identify children with serious infections in paediatric emergency care?

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 888-893

  Thompson, Matthew ^a   Coad, N ^b   Harnden, A ^a   Mayon White, R ^a   Perera, R ^a   Mant, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAPILLARY FLOW; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INFECTION; MALE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; VITAL SIGN;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRIAGE; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 70350449241     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.159095     Document Type: Article

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