Evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of the WHO Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) criteria in Middle Eastern children under two years over three respiratory seasons.

Autor: Thomas Klink, Danielle A Rankin, Bhinnata Piya, Andrew J Spieker, Samir Faouri, Asem Shehabi, John V Williams, Najwa Khuri-Bulos, Natasha B Halasa
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 4, p e0232188 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232188
Popis: OBJECTIVE:The World Health Organization created the Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) criteria in 2011 to monitor influenza (flu)-related hospitalization. Many studies have since used the SARI case definition as inclusion criteria for surveillance studies. We sought to determine the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of the SARI criteria for detecting ten different respiratory viruses in a Middle Eastern pediatric cohort. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The data for this study comes from a prospective acute respiratory surveillance study of hospitalized children
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