Follow-up Urine Cultures and Fever in Children with Urinary Tract Infection

Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1237-1240

  Currie, Melissa L ^a   Mitz, Lindsay ^a   Raasch, Carolyn S ^a   Greenbaum, Larry A ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CHILD; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINE; VESICO-URETERAL REFLUX;

EID: 0344792637     PISSN: 10724710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.157.12.1237     Document Type: Review

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