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Brief title
Health condition
Fever without an apparant source, infectious diseases
Sponsors and support
Intervention
Outcome measures
Primary outcome
Adherence to all steps of the national guidelines
Secondary outcome
Differences in patient characteristics, the amount of diagnostic testing and antibiotic treatment, the number of severe infections and clinical outcome.
Background summary
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the adherence to the national guidelines from the Dutch Association of Paediatric Medicine (NVK) “Fever in secondary care setting in children aged 0-16 years” in current paediatric hospital practice. The secondary objectives include evaluating differences between the adherence group compared to the non-adherence group
regarding: patient characteristics, the amount of diagnostic testing and antibiotic treatment, the number of severe infections and clinical outcome.
Study objective
Adherence to the national guidelines is estimated at around 50%. Non-adherence does not lead to significant differences in clinical outcome such as readmission rate.
Study design
Inclusion at emergency department presentation
Inclusion criteria
Children aged 0-16 years presented at a participating hospital with fever without an apparant source are eligible. Fever is defined as a temperature of >38.0°C at home or during presentation.
Exclusion criteria
Children will be excluded in case of early onset neonatal sepsis (within 72 hours after birth), or the hospitalised neonate.
Design
Recruitment
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Plan description
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In other registers
| Register | ID |
|---|---|
| NTR-new | NL8870 |
| Other | METC AMC : W20_309 # 20.344 non-WMO |