Designing a pediatric severe sepsis screening tool

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Volumn 2, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages

  Sepanski, Robert J ^a   Godambe, Sandip A ^a,b,c   Mangum, Christopher D ^a   Bovat, Christine S ^a   Zaritsky, Arno L ^a,b   Shah, Samir H ^c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF THE KING S DAUGHTERS   (United States)

^b EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Emergency department; Screening tool; Severe sepsis; SIRS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934978730     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2014.00056     Document Type: Article

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