Sepsis and meningitis in hospitalized children: Performance of clinical signs and their prediction rules in a case-control study

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 373-380

  Verbakel, Jan Y ^a   Macfaul, Roderick ^b   Aertgeerts, Bert ^a   Buntinx, Frank ^a,c   Thompson, Matthew ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b PINDERFIELDS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacterial meningitis and sepsis; clinical prediction rules; diagnostic accuracy; NICE guideline feverish illness; serious bacterial infection in children

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING RATE; CAPILLARY REFILL TIME; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PREDICTION RULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRACKLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPILEPTIC STATE; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; FEVER; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZED CHILD; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INFANT; LIMB SWELLING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODIFIED YALE OBSERVATION SCALE; MUCOSAL DRYNESS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EXCELLENCE TRAFFIC LIGHT SYSTEM; NECK MUSCLE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OXFORD VITAL SIGNS SCORE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PEDIATRIC ADVANCED WARNING SCORE; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; RECOGNIZING ACUTE ILLNESS IN CHILDREN SCORE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SKIN TURGOR; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; TIME; TONSILLITIS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNITED KINGDOM; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINE VOLUME; VIRUS INFECTION; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; MENINGITIS;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENINGITIS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84902547714     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000142     Document Type: Article

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