Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 2 , Pages 216-225, August 2003

Identifying febrile young infants with bacteremia: Is the peripheral white blood cell count an accurate screen?☆☆☆*

Presented in part at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, May 2001.

Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH (Bonsu); and the Department of Medicine, Divisions of Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA (Harper)

Received 1 May 2002; received in revised form 30 October 2002, 28 January 2003 and 27 March 2003; accepted 21 April 2003.

Address for correspondence: Bema K. Bonsu, MB ChB, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital, 700 Children's Drive, Columbus, OH 43213; 614-722-4385, fax 614-722-4380; E-mail bonsub@pediatrics.ohio-state.edu.

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☆ The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.

☆☆ Reprints not available from the authors.

* Author contributions: This study was conceived and designed by BKB and MHB. MHB collated the data. BKB cleaned and analyzed the data in close consultation with MHB, who served as the statistical consultant. BKB drafted the manuscript, but both authors contributed substantially to the revision of the manuscript. MHB supervised all stages of this work from its conception and design to completion of the manuscript. BKB takes responsibility for the manuscript as a whole.

PII: S0196-0644(03)00441-4

doi:10.1067/mem.2003.299

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 42, Issue 2 , Pages 216-225, August 2003

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