The Development of Algorithms for Individual Ranges of Body Temperature and Oxygen Saturation in Healthy and Frail Individuals.

Background/objectives: Individual habitual conditions entail a risk during the interpretation of vital parameters. We developed algorithms for calculating, validating, and interpreting individual normal ranges of body temperature and oxygen saturation.

Methods: In total, 70 healthy individuals aged 27 to 80 and 52 frail individuals aged 60 to 100 were included.

The assessment of preschool children with ESSENCE symptoms: concordance between parents, preschool teachers and child psychologists.

Background: It is important to detect children with Early Symptomatic Syndromes Eliciting Neurodevelopmental Clinical Examinations (ESSENCE) in order to implement early intervention and support for the child and family. Standardized instruments for assessment in different contexts of behaviour problems, engagement and psychosocial health obtain an objective picture of the preschool child's mental health.

Aim: To explore and compare parents', preschool teachers' and child health care psychologists' assessment of behaviour, everyday function, engagement, social interaction and psychosocial health in children with ESSENCE symptoms.

Advising parents when their child has a fever: a phenomenographic analysis of nurses' perceptions when working at a telephone helpline, at primary care or at a paediatric emergency department in Sweden.

Objectives: To describe nurses' perceptions of advising parents when their child has a fever.

Design/method: Inductive, descriptive study with a qualitative, phenomenographic approach.

Participants And Setting: A purposive sampling was used.

The value of fever assessment in addition to the Early Detection Infection Scale (EDIS). A validation study in nursing home residents in Sweden.

Background: In order to improve detection of suspected infections in frail elderly there is an urgent need for development of decision support tools, that can be used in the daily work of all healthcare professionals for assessing non-specific and specific changes. The aim was to study non-specific signs and symptoms and fever temperature for early detection of ongoing infection in frail elderly, and how these correlates to provide the instrument, the Early Detection Infection Scale (EDIS), which is used to assess changes in health condition in frail elderly.

Methods: This was an explorative, prospective cohort study, including 45 nursing home residents, 76 to 99 years, in Sweden.

Decision support-tools for early detection of infection in older people (aged> 65 years): a scoping review.

Background: Infection is more frequent, and serious in people aged > 65 as they experience non-specific signs and symptoms delaying diagnosis and prompt treatment. Monitoring signs and symptoms using decision support tools (DST) is one approach that could help improve early detection ensuring timely treatment and effective care.

Objective: To identify and analyse decision support tools available to support detection of infection in older people (> 65 years).