Which Febrile Children With Sickle Cell Disease Need a Chest X-Ray?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1248-1256

  Eisenbrown, Katherine ^a   Nimmer, Mark ^a   Ellison, Angela M ^b   Simpson, Pippa ^c   Brousseau, David C ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c Children's Hospital of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COUGHING; CRACKLE; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TACHYPNEA; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; INFANT; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; ANEMIA, SICKLE CELL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84994475112     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.13048     Document Type: Article

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