Assessing respiratory rate for children with fever

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  • Description: Every paediatrician and parent recognises the association between fever and rapid respiration rate in children, yet most criteria for judging whether a child is tachypnoeic fail to take temperature into account. In this article the authors describe respiratory rate reference values that have been adjusted for both temperature and age. Such reference values have the potential to identify lower respiratory tract infection more accurately than traditional ones.
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  • Relates To:
  • Report : Derivation and validation of age and temperature specific reference values and centile charts to predict lower respiratory tract infection in children with fever: prospective observational study
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  • Collection : ChiMat Reports

  • Author


  • Anna Kilonback, paediatric specialty registrar, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children

    • Publishing

  • Published by: British Medical Journal (BMJ)
  • Published date: Tuesday, 3rd July 2012 00:00:00

    • Subject

  • Keywords (National Public Health Language):
  • AGE GROUPS
  • CHILD
  • CHILDREN
  • DIAGNOSIS
  • MEASURES, METHODS, RESEARCH, THEORIES
  • YOUNG PEOPLE
  • Category (Government Category List):
  • YOUNG PEOPLE

    • Other

  • Source: BMJ 2012; 345 doi: 10.1136/bmj.e4249

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