Clinical prediction model to aid emergency doctors managing febrile children at risk of serious bacterial infections: diagnostic study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To derive, cross validate, and externally validate a clinical prediction model that assesses the risks of different serious bacterial infections in children with fever at the emergency department.

Design

Prospective observational diagnostic study.

Setting

Three paediatric emergency care units: two in the Netherlands and one in the United Kingdom.

Participants

Children with fever, aged 1 month to 15 years, at three paediatric emergency care units: Rotterdam (n=1750) and the Hague (n=967), the Netherlands, and Coventry (n=487), United Kingdom. A prediction model was constructed using multivariable polytomous logistic regression analysis and included the predefined predictor variables age, duration of fever, tachycardia, temperature, tachypnoea, ill appe

SUBMITTER: Nijman RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3614186 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature