Fever Time!- Biomarkers and Clinical Decision Rules performance by length of infant fever

Fever in the infant, particularly those less that 60 days old, presents a diagnostic challenge. Many biomarkers and clinical decision aids have been developed to help the practicing clinician decide who is at risk for a serious or invasive bacterial infection. But what if the fever has only been present a short while? How do these biomarkers and decision aids work very early in the disease process? In this podcast we review an Annals article that helps answer this question.

 

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