Inclusion of urine analysis not justified

[...]more children with urinary tract infection would have been identified if the study had used the NICE guideline rather than the traffic light system alone. [...]recommendations on management in paediatric assessment units suggest that all children with fever without apparent source be assessed f...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ (Online) 2013-07, Vol.347 (jul10 2), p.f2331-f2331
Hauptverfasser: Chard, Jiri, Richardson, Martin, Murphy, Stephen
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:[...]more children with urinary tract infection would have been identified if the study had used the NICE guideline rather than the traffic light system alone. [...]recommendations on management in paediatric assessment units suggest that all children with fever without apparent source be assessed for symptoms and signs of pneumonia, and children with pneumonia were the second largest group of children with serious illness not detected by the traffic light system.
ISSN:0959-8138
1756-1833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.f2331