Testing and Treatment Thresholds for Pediatric Pneumonia in the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical prediction models for pediatric community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) may standardize management. Understanding physician risk thresholds is important for model implementation. We aimed to elucidate physician-derived thresholds for chest radiograph performance and empirical antibiotic treatment of CAP among children presenting to the emergency department with respiratory illness before and after knowledge of results of a validated clinical prediction model.

Methods

Pediatric emergency physicians were surveyed through the American Academy of Pediatrics Pediatric Emergency Medicine Collaborative Research Committee and provided 8 clinical vignettes for children with respiratory symptoms. Respondents were asked to indicate their probability of radiographic CAP a

SUBMITTER: Geanacopoulos AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11609995 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature