fever of unknown origin
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients aged 18 years or older who were admitted to Saga University Hospital between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2022 and had ICD-10 code R-50-9 (fever of unknown cause) during their hospital admission were included.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: -Cases in which serum ferritin levels have not been measured from the day before admission to three days after admission -Cases in which the diagnosis was definitly confirmed before admission -Cases in which chest radiographs, blood tests and urinalysis were not performed at the time of admission
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The AUC, shrinkage coefficient and stratified likelihood ratio of the predictive model for infectious diseases to be constructed in this study. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Saga University Hospital Department of General Medicine