Volume 11, Number 2, February 2005

Managing Febrile Respiratory Illnesses during a Hypothetical SARS Outbreak

Kamran Khan,* Peter Muennig,† Michael Gardam,‡ and Joshua Graff Zivin†
*St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; †Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; and ‡University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Figure 2. Optimal management of undifferentiated febrile respiratory illnesses under different testing capabilities. pSARS, prevalence (i.e., pretest probability) of severe acute respiratory syndrome among febrile respiratory illnesses. Values are rounded to the nearest fraction.

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