Body Temperature Monitoring and SARS Fever Hotline, Taiwan

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Kaydos-Daniels, S. Cornelia ; Olowokure, Babatunde ; Chang, Hong-Jen ; Barwick, Rachel S. ; Deng, Jou-Fang ; Lee, Ming-Liang ; Kuo, Steve Hsu-Sung ; Su, Ih-Jen ; Chen, Kow-Tong ; Maloney, Susan A.
• Corporate Authors:
  SARS International Field Team
• Description:
  In Taiwan, a temperature-monitoring campaign and hotline for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) fever were implemented in June 2003. Among 1,966 calls, fever was recorded in 19% (n = 378); 18 persons at high risk for SARS were identified. In a cross-sectional telephone survey, 95% (n = 1,060) of households knew about the campaign and 7 households reported fever.
• Subjects:
  Body Temperature Community Health Services Consumer Participation Cross-Sectional Studies Data Collection Fever Hotlines Humans Population Surveillance Research Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 10(2):373-376.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Taiwan ; Asia
• Location:
  Asia ; Asia
• Volume:
  10
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:061e8620a6afa69345ca497eaea9bc3e219566876feea1acf205bb70927cbc63
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/7749/cdc_7749_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 67.76 KB ]