National trends in emergency department use of urinalysis, complete blood count, and blood culture for fever without a source among children aged 2 to 24 months in the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine 7 era

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 560-567

  Simon, Alan E ^a   Lukacs, Susan L ^a   Mendola, Pauline ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Fever; PCV 7; Testing

Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FEVER; FEVER WITHOUT A SOURCE; GASTROENTERITIS; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PYELONEPHRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREND STUDY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS;

EID: 84877734796     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: 15351815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31828e56e1     Document Type: Article

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