A three-step diagnosis of pediatric pneumonia at the emergency department using clinical predictors, C-reactive protein, and pneumococcal PCR
Published inEuropean Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 176, no. 6, p. 815-824
Publication date2017
Abstract
Keywords
- Adolescent
- Biomarkers/blood
- C-Reactive Protein/metabolism
- Calcitonin/blood
- Child
- Child
- Preschool
- Community-Acquired Infections/blood/complications/diagnosis/microbiology
- DNA
- Bacterial/analysis
- Decision Support Techniques
- Diagnosis
- Differential
- Emergency Service
- Hospital
- Female
- Humans
- Logistic Models
- Male
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae/genetics/isolation & purification
- Pneumonia
- Mycoplasma/blood/complications/diagnosis
- Pneumonia
- Pneumococcal/blood/complications/diagnosis
- Pneumonia
- Viral/blood/diagnosis
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Predictive Value of Tests
- Prospective Studies
- Streptococcus pneumoniae/genetics/isolation & purification
Citation (ISO format)
ALCOBA, Gabriel et al. A three-step diagnosis of pediatric pneumonia at the emergency department using clinical predictors, C-reactive protein, and pneumococcal PCR. In: European Journal of Pediatrics, 2017, vol. 176, n° 6, p. 815–824. doi: 10.1007/s00431-017-2913-0
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Article (Published version)
Identifiers
- PID : unige:107570
- DOI : 10.1007/s00431-017-2913-0
- PMID : 28474099
ISSN of the journal0340-6199