Discriminating Bacterial Infection from Other Causes of Fever Using Body Temperature Entropy Analysis

Body temperature is usually employed in clinical practice by strict binary thresholding, aiming to classify patients as having fever or not. In the last years, other approaches based on the continuous analysis of body temperature time series have emerged. These are not only based on absolute thresho...

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Main Authors: Borja Vargas, David Cuesta-Frau, Paula González-López, María-José Fernández-Cotarelo, Óscar Vázquez-Gómez, Ana Colás, Manuel Varela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-04-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/4/510