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  • Title: Acute infectious illness in children.
    Author: McCarthy PL.
    Journal: Compr Ther; 1988 Mar; 14(3):51-7. PubMed ID: 3282767.
    Abstract:
    The young child with fever represents a diagnostic challenge. The physician has powerful allies with which to meet this challenge--the carefully performed observation, history, and physical examination. This evaluation, along with an appreciation of age and temperature risk factors, can lead to optimum patient care and to a more apposite use of both screening and diagnostic laboratory studies. Decisions about hospitalization and therapy are based on an appreciation of causative agents, a comprehensive knowledge of disease processes, and any aspects of the social situation that could have an adverse influence on outpatient management.
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