Performance of AAP CPG for Ineligible Well-Appearing Febrile Infants Aged 8-60 Days.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

The AAP's Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for febrile infants provides recommendations in evaluating well-appearing febrile infants aged 8-60 days at risk for invasive bacterial infections (IBIs; ie, bacteremia and bacterial meningitis). However, guidance remains limited for the infants excluded from (ie, ineligible for) the CPG. The objectives are to estimate the proportion of well-appearing CPG-ineligible febrile infants and to examine CPG performance in detecting IBIs for CPG-ineligible febrile infants.

Methods

We performed a secondary analysis of single-site data collected for a prior study from 2011 to 2018. Infants were included if they were 8-60 days and well-appearing. We stratified IBI risk using age and CPG inflammatory marker threshold

SUBMITTER: Knudson MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11609980 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature