Use of time from fever onset improves the diagnostic accuracy of C-reactive protein in identifying bacterial infections

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 99, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 974-978

  Segal, Idan ^a   Ehrlichman, Matityahu ^a,b   Urbach, Joseph ^a   Bar Meir, Maskit ^a,b  

^a SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT RISK; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TIME; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BACTERIAL SKIN DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIARRHEA; LOBAR PNEUMONIA; MASTOIDITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; SCARLET FEVER; STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84907952939     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305640     Document Type: Article

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