Performance of low-risk criteria in the evaluation of young infants with fever: Review of the literature

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 228-233

  Huppler, Anna R ^a   Eickhoff, Jens C ^a,b   Wald, Ellen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Fever; Infant; Meningitis; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASEPTIC MENINGITIS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DIARRHEA; EMPIRICISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEVER; GASTROENTERITIS; GROUP B STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT DISEASE; MEDLINE; NEWBORN INFECTION; OSTEOMYELITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIOSIS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEVER; HUMANS; INFANT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 76049121516     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-1070     Document Type: Review

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