Useless Tests on Febrile Children?
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- Published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in Pediatrics
- Vol. 64 (1) , 121-122
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.64.1.121a
Abstract
McCarthy and colleagues1 have recently reported pro-spectively accumulated data on the use of various acute phase reactants in the evaluation of febrile children. It is not stated whether the 400 study children represented all febrile patients evaluated during the five-month study period or only a fraction. In any case, the conclusion ... " that evaluation of a febrile child with acute-phase reactants should include at least a determination of the ESR" seems to be of little differential diagnostic or practical importance.Keywords
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