Respiratory Severity Score Separates Upper Versus Lower Respiratory Tract Infections and Predicts Measures of Disease Severity

Pediatric, Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 117-120

  Feldman, Amy S ^a   Hartert, Tina V ^a   Gebretsadik, Tebeb ^b   Carroll, Kecia N ^a   Minton, Patricia A ^a   Woodward, Kimberly B ^a   Larkin, Emma K ^a   Miller, Eva Kathryn ^a   Valet, Robert S ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SEVERITY ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZED INFANT; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY SEVERITY SCORE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 84931294206     PISSN: 2151321X     EISSN: 21513228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ped.2014.0463     Document Type: Article

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