Geriatric Fever Score: a new decision rule for geriatric care.

BACKGROUND:Evaluating geriatric patients with fever is time-consuming and challenging. We investigated independent mortality predictors of geriatric patients with fever and developed a prediction rule for emergency care, critical care, and geriatric care physicians to classify patients into mortalit...

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Main Authors: Min-Hsien Chung, Chien-Cheng Huang, Si-Chon Vong, Tzu-Meng Yang, Kuo-Tai Chen, Hung-Jung Lin, Jiann-Hwa Chen, Shih-Bin Su, How-Ran Guo, Chien-Chin Hsu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110927