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Volume 43, Issue 10, Pages 10-11 (October 2009)


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Initial Lab Tests Often Skipped for Febrile Kids

JOYCE FRIEDEN

TAMPA — Emergency departments in general and pediatric hospitals did not obtain urine cultures from three-fourths of febrile pediatric patients under 3 years of age, and did not obtain blood cultures from two-thirds of such patients, according to a study of national data.

PII: S0031-398X(09)70278-4


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