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Volume 10, Number 2—February 2004
THEME ISSUE
2004 SARS Edition
Preparedness and Response

Body Temperature Monitoring and SARS Fever Hotline, Taiwan

S. Cornelia Kaydos-Daniels*†Comments to Author , Babatunde Olowokure‡§, Hong-Jen Chang¶, Rachel S. Barwick†, Jou-Fang Deng#, Ming-Liang Lee**, Steve Hsu-Sung Kuo††, Ih-Jen Su‡‡, Kow-Tong Chen††, Susan A. Maloney†, and the SARS International Field Team
Author affiliations: *West Virginia Bureau for Public Health, Charleston, West Virginia, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; ‡World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; §Health Protection Agency, Regional Surveillance Unit West Midlands, Birmingham, United Kingdom; ¶Bureau of National Health Insurance, Taiwan; #Taipei Medical Association, Taipei, Taiwan; **Tzu-Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan; ††Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office, Washington, DC, USA; ‡‡Center for Disease Control, Taiwan

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Table 2

Reported advice given to persons by recorded body temperatures, Taipei SARS fever hotline, June 1–10, 2003 (n = 1,966)a

Advice given Body temperature
Fever ≥38°C
n (%)
 No fever
n (%)
 Unknown/unrecorded
n (%)
Stay home and monitorb
 19 (5.0)
 42 (6.6)
 21 (2.2)
See physicianb
 116 (30.7)
 55 (8.7)
 40 (4.2)
Go to fever clinic
 21 (5.6)
 2 (0.3)
 5 (0.5)
Call ambulance
 1 (0.3)
 0 (0)
 0 (0)
Other
 3 (0.8)
 10 (1.6)
 13 (1.4)
Unknown or unrecordedb
 221 (58.5)
 535 (84.4)
 888 (93.1)
Total 378 634 954

aSARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.
bAdvice given to 18 callers at high risk for SARS: for 5 with fever: see physician (1 caller); unknown or unrecorded (4 callers). For 2 callers with no fever: unknown or unrecorded (2 callers). For 11 callers with unknown body temperature: stay home and monitor (1 caller), unknown or unrecorded (10 callers).

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¹SARS International Field Team: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA: Peter B. Bloland; Stephanie H. Factor; Alexandre Macedo de Oliveira, assigned to Nebraska Department of Health; Melissa A Marx, assigned to New York City Department of Health; Sarah Y. Park; John T. Watson, assigned to Chicago Department of Public Health; Susan Wang; David Wong; William Wong, assigned to San Francisco Department of Public Health; Global Alert and Response, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland: Kande-Bure O’Bai Kamara and Howard Sobel.

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