ArticlePediatric health, medicine and therapeutics2019
The Burden Of Visits For Fever At A Paediatric Emergency Room: A Retrospective Study On Patients Presenting At The Cantons Hospital Of Fribourg, A Peripheral Public Hospital Of Switzerland.
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- Assessing inequalities in paediatric emergency department admissions in the Northwest of England: a retrospective cohort study.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Determination of the relationship between parents' health literacy and fever management of their children: A cross-sectional study.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Observational
- Parental Perceptions of Pediatric Fever From Two Medical Centers in Lebanon.International journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
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- An analysis of the diagnoses and costs of pediatric emergency care visits: a single center study.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Utility of Rapid Nasopharyngeal Swab for Respiratory Pathogens in the Diagnosis of Viral Infections in Children Hospitalized with Fever: A Prospective Validation Study to Improve Antibiotic Use.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Fever without a source in children: international comparison of guidelines.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2023Review
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Abstract
introductionFever is the chief complaint of up to one-third of all paediatric office visits in many places. The high number of consultations at our emergency department (ED) led us to hypothesise that this increase was due to febrile paediatric patients with lower urgency seeking medical advice.
methodsWe retrospectively analysed the number and characteristics of patients 3 months to 5 years of age consulting for a body temperature of 38.5°C or higher during the 6 winter months of 2011-2012.
resultsTwenty-four percent of all consultations were requested by the patients included in our group. None of the 835 patients had to be hospitalised, 95% of these patients had additional respiratory or gastrointestinal symptoms, 36.7% required antibiotic therapy, and 17.6% (laryngitis and lower respiratory tract infection (RTI)) required temporary respiratory support. A total of 56.2% of patients sought advice outside of the normal working hours.
conclusionThe majority of patients had fever accompanied by additional symptoms justifying a medical consultation. However, most of these did not require the infrastructure of an ED for their health care problem and probably visited the ED because of the open hours.
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