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*†
, 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
, 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
Table 1
Diagnoses reported for callers by recorded body temperature, Taipei SARS fever hotline, June 1–10, 2003 (n = 1,966)a
| Body temperature | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnosis or
syndrome |
Fever ≥38°C
n (%) |
No fever
n (%) |
Unknown/unrecorded |
| Possible SARS |
5 (1.3) |
2 (0.3) |
11 (1.2) |
| Respiratory |
65 (17.2) |
99 (15.6) |
40 (4.2) |
| Dermatologic |
0 (0) |
1 (0.2) |
3 (0.3) |
| Head-relatedb |
6 (1.6) |
10 (1.6) |
2 (0.2) |
| Gastrointestinal |
21 (5.6) |
47 (7.4) |
14 (1.5) |
| Genitourinary |
7 (1.9) |
8 (1.3) |
4 (0.4) |
| Other |
27 (7.1) |
31 (4.9) |
50 (5.2) |
| Unknown/missing |
247 (65.3) |
436 (68.8) |
830 (87.0) |
| Total | 378 | 634 | 954 |
aSARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome.
bIncludes neurologic.
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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