Clinical evaluation of viral acute respiratory tract infections in children presenting to the emergency department of a tertiary referral hospital in the Netherlands

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gooskens, Jairo ^a   van der Ploeg, Vishnu ^a   Sukhai, Ram N ^a   Vossen, Ann C T M ^a   Claas, Eric C J ^a   Kroes, Aloys C M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory tract infection; Clinical outcome; Pediatric emergency department; Respiratory virus; Signs and symptoms

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; STEROID;

APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONAVIRUS INFECTION; COUGHING; CRACKLE; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN METAPNEUMOVIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RHINOVIRUS; INFANT; INFLUENZA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PARAINFLUENZA VIRUS INFECTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINOVIRUS INFECTION; TACHYPNEA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; WINTER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIROLOGY;

BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEROIDS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84925394586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12887-014-0297-0     Document Type: Article

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