How useful is C-reactive protein in detecting occult bacterial infection in young children with fever without apparent focus?
- 1 June 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 91 (6), 533-535
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2005.093450
Abstract
In young children with fever without apparent focus on physical examination and history [subject], is measurement of C-reactive protein a good screening test [intervention] to detect occult bacterial infection or bacteraemia [outcome]?Keywords
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