The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Fever in the Elderly
Abstract
Infections in the elderly, similar to other acute illnesses in this age group, may present in atypical, nonclassical fashions. Fever, the cardinal sign of infection, may be absent or blunted 20%-30% of the time. An absent or blunted fever response may in turn contribute to diagnostic delays in this population, which is already at risk for increased morbidity and mortality due to infection. On the other hand, the presence of a fever in the geriatric patient is more likely to be associated with a serious viral or bacterial infection than is fever in a younger patient. Finally, a diagnosis can be made in the majority of cases of fever of unknown origin (FUO) in the elderly. FUO is often associated with treatable conditions in this age group.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Normal Body Temperature: A Systematic Review
Geneva, I. I., Cuzzo, B., Fazili, T., & Javaid, W. (2019) · Open Forum Infectious Diseases · doi:10.1093/ofid/ofz032 · Cited by 298
Rowe, T. A., & McKoy, J. M. (2017) · Infectious Disease Clinics of North America · doi:10.1016/j.idc.2017.07.010 · Cited by 162
Hospital acquired infections (HAI) in the elderly: Comparison with the younger patients
Avci, M., Ozgenc, O., Coskuner, S. A., & Olut, A. I. (2012) · Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics · doi:10.1016/j.archger.2011.03.014 · Cited by 69
Saxena, S., & Hashmi, A. Z. (2021) · Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine · doi:10.3949/ccjm.88a.ccc080 · Cited by 6
Miller, A. C., Koeneman, S. H., Suneja, M., Cavanaugh, J. E., & Polgreen, P. M. (2024) · Diagnosis · doi:10.1515/dx-2023-0074 · Cited by 4
Metadata
- Authors
- Norman, D. C.
- Venue
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2000-07-01
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 148-151
- ISSN
- 1058-4838 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-6591
- OpenAlex
- W2051719302
- Cited by
- 339
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 6.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Fever in the Elderly. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1086/313896
- The paper
- Norman, D. C. (2000). Fever in the Elderly. Clinical Infectious Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1086/313896
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
