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Vital signs, clinical rules, and gut feeling: an observational study among patients with fever

Gideon HP Latten, Lieke Claassen, Lucinda Coumans, Vera Goedemondt, Calvin Brouwer, Jean WM Muris, Jochen WL Cals and Patricia M Stassen
BJGP Open 2021; 5 (6): BJGPO.2021.0125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0125
Gideon HP Latten
1 Emergency Department, Zuyderland Medisch Centrum, Heerlen, The Netherlands
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Lieke Claassen
1 Emergency Department, Zuyderland Medisch Centrum, Heerlen, The Netherlands
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Lucinda Coumans
1 Emergency Department, Zuyderland Medisch Centrum, Heerlen, The Netherlands
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Vera Goedemondt
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Jean WM Muris
2 Department of Family Medicine, Maastricht University, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Jochen WL Cals
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Patricia M Stassen
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vol. 5 no. 6 BJGPO.2021.0125
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0125
PubMed 
34475019

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Royal College of General Practitioners
History 
  • Received July 7, 2021
  • Accepted August 18, 2021
  • Published online December 14, 2021.

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  1. Gideon HP Latten1,*,†,
  2. Lieke Claassen1,†,
  3. Lucinda Coumans1,
  4. Vera Goedemondt1,
  5. Calvin Brouwer1,
  6. Jean WM Muris2,
  7. Jochen WL Cals2 and
  8. Patricia M Stassen3
  1. 1 Emergency Department, Zuyderland Medisch Centrum, Heerlen, The Netherlands
  2. 2 Department of Family Medicine, Maastricht University, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Maastricht, The Netherlands
  3. 3 Department of Internal Medicine, Division General Medicine, Section Acute Medicine, Maastricht University, CAPHRI, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  1. ↵ *For correspondence:
    Gideon HP Latten, g.latten{at}zuyderland.nl
  1. ↵† These authors contributed equally to this work

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BJGP Open 2021; 5 (6): BJGPO.2021.0125. DOI: 10.3399/BJGPO.2021.0125
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