Clinical predictors for laboratory-confirmed influenza infections: Exploring case definitions for influenza-like illness

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 241-248

  Shah, Shital C ^a   Rumoro, Dino P ^a   Hallock, Marilyn M ^a   Trenholme, Gordon M ^a   Gibbs, Gillian S ^a   Silva, Julio C ^a   Waddell, Michael J ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Pangaea Information Technologies Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILL; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MIDDLE AGED; MYALGIA; NEWBORN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHINORRHEA; RIGOR; SORE THROAT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WHEEZING; COMPLICATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923370659     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2014.64     Document Type: Article

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