Derivation and Internal Validation of the Ebola Prediction Score for Risk Stratification of Patients with Suspected Ebola Virus Disease

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 285-293.E1

  Levine, Adam C ^a   Shetty, Pranav Prathap ^c   Burbach, Ryan ^c   Cheemalapati, Sambhavi ^c   Glavis Bloom, Justin ^a   Wiskel, Tess ^a   Kesselly, J Kota T ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cuttington University ^*  (Liberia)

^c INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLA PREDICTION SCORE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HICCUP; HUMAN; INTERNAL VALIDITY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIBERIA; LOSS OF APPETITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYALGIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; APPETITE; COMPLICATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPETITE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; LIBERIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYALGIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940452589     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.03.011     Document Type: Article

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