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Repeated Emergency Department Visits Among Children with Invasive Bacterial Infections

Author(s) -

Iker Gangoiti,

Zaloa Gorostizaga,

Maitane Aranzamendi,

Borja Gómez,

Javier Benito,

Santiago Mintegi

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

the pediatric infectious disease journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028

H-Index - 140

eISSN - 1532-0987

pISSN - 0891-3668

DOI - 10.1097/inf.0000000000003062

Subject(s) - emergency department , medicine , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , antibiotics , cohort , pediatrics , biology , psychiatry , microbiology and biotechnology

We carried out a retrospective cohort study of 271 previously healthy children younger than 14 years old diagnosed with invasive bacterial infection in an emergency department. Of them, 72 (26.6%) had previous visits to the emergency department. Not identifying children with an invasive bacterial infection and not administering antibiotics on the first visit was associated with a severe outcome.

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