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This Malagasy sentinel surveillance system did detected fever outbreaks in areas where traditional surveillance system didn't.
Physical examination at admission (day 1) detected fever (38.5°C), dyspnea, and a low body mass index of 17.5 kg/m.
Doctors based at the airport referred 15 (12.9%) of the 116 patients to TTSH; thermal scanners used to screen arriving passengers had detected fever in 14 of these 15 patients.
Nurses detected fever with a sensitivity of 94% (95 % CI 71 100%%), a specificity of 88%95%5% CI 75 96 %), a positive predictive value of 76%95%5% CI 53 92%), and a negative predictive value of 97% (95%CI 87 100 %) using the home thermometer.
Using the home thermometer, parents detected fever with a sensitivity of 76%95%5% CI 50 93%), a specificity of 95%95%5% CI 84 99%), a positive predictive value of 87%95%5% CI 60 98%), and a negative predictive value of 91%95%5% CI 79 98 %).
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Thermal scanners detected fevers in 12% of the arriving case-patients, resulting in a shorter time to isolation.
A more recent study involving airline travelers estimated a positive predictive value of ITIS for fever detection of 0.9%4.1%% for detecting fever of any cause and a positive predictive value of fever for influenza of 2.0%2.8%% for detecting influenza-associated fever (3 ).
A review of hospital-based studies examining the efficacy of ITISs in detecting fever found that the sensitivity of fever detection ranged from 4% to 89.6%, and the positive predictive value with a 1% prevalence of fever ranged from 3.5% to 65.4% (22 ).
Sometimes the dancers pat and touch one another as if to ease pain or detect fever, gestures like small, remarkable nubbles in the weave of the dance.
Therefore, the prevalence of fever (by each definition) in the holders of marked questionnaires was combined with the sensitivity and specificity of ITIS for detecting fever to estimate the PPV in the population of all travellers who arrived on the flights that took part in the study.
Diagnosis has relied on detecting fever, and most people were given antimalarial drugs presumptively.
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