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Infective endocarditis

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Duke criteria 

Use the Duke criteria to establish the diagnosis b

Why?

They rule out infective endocarditis better than the von Reyn criteria, and are as effective at making the diagnosis b


Duke criteria help diagnose infective endocarditis
Patient b Target Disorder and
Reference Standard		 Diagnostic Test LR+
(95% CI) 		Post-test Probability
suspected infective endocarditis
(pre-test probability: 48%) 		infective endocarditis
(pathological diagnosis) 		definite on Duke 29
(7.3 to 120) 		92%
    possible on Duke 2.3
(0.83 to 6.2) 		46%
    rejected on Duke 0.0
(0.0 to 0.12) 		0%

 

Expiry date: July 2003
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Authors   CM   Ball , C   Hennigan , S   Dhingra
Reviewer   E   Abrutyn
CAT Writers   CM   Ball , C   Hennigan , S   Dhingra