Ability of adult patients to predict absence or presence of fever in an emergency department triage clinic

Journal of Family and Community Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-34

  Al Almaie, Sameeh M ^a  

^a IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

adult patient; emergency department and reliability; Fever; subjective fever

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925564303     PISSN: 22308229     EISSN: 2229340X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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