Diagnostic accuracy comparison between clinical signs and hemoglobin color scale as screening methods in the diagnosis of anemia in children Comparação da acurácia do diagnóstico dos sinais clínicos e da escala de cores de hemoglobina como métodos de triagem no diagnóstico da anemia em crianças
OBJECTIVES: to compare the validity and reproducibility of clinical signs with the World Health Organization hemoglobin color scale. METHODS: Two hundred six children in the age range of 6-23 months, at the Instituto Materno Infantil Prof. Fernando Figueira, IMIP, were assessed. Two examiners evalua...
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Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco
2006-06-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-38292006000200005 |