Outpatient Management without Antibiotics of Fever in Selected Infants
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- 11 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 329 (20) , 1437-1441
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199311113292001
Abstract
In many academic centers it is standard practice to hospitalize all febrile infants younger than two months of age, whereas in community settings such infants are often cared for as outpatients.Keywords
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