Prevalence of occult bacteremia in children aged 3 to 36 months presenting to the emergency department with fever in the postpneumococcal conjugate vaccine era

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 220-225

  Wilkinson, Matthew ^a   Bulloch, Blake ^a   Smith, Matthew ^a  

^a PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Emergency medicine; Fever; Infant; Streptococcus pneumoniae

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEVER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ARIZONA; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 62249189650     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00328.x     Document Type: Article

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