Predictive value of clinical and laboratory features for the main febrile diseases in children living in Tanzania: A prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To construct evidence-based guidelines for management of febrile illness, it is essential to identify clinical predictors for the main causes of fever, either to diagnose the disease when no laboratory test is available or to better target testing when a test is available. The objective was to investigate clinical predictors of several diseases in a cohort of febrile children attending outpatient clinics in Tanzania, whose diagnoses have been established after extensive clinical and laboratory workup.

Method

From April to December 2008, 1005 consecutive children aged 2 months to 10 years with temperature ≥38°C attending two outpatient clinics in Dar es Salaam were included. Demographic characteristics, symptoms and signs, comorbidities, full blood count and liver

SUBMITTER: De Santis O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5413055 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature