TY  - JOUR
T1  - USe of respiratory syncytial virus testing could safely eliminate many sepsis evaluations
AU  - Antonow JA, Byington CL
Y1  - 1999/12/01
N1  - 
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 1309
EP  - 1310
VL  - 153
IS  - 12
N2  - 
Our study of 282 hospitalized infants aged 60 days or younger with bronchiolitis included 140 with sepsis evaluations performed (which we defined as cultures of blood, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid with initiation of parenteral antibiotics). There were 5 infants with SBI. Even though 142 infants did not have cultures obtained, they were observed in the hospital an average of 3.4 days; review of their medical records did not reveal undetected SBI or readmissions for missed SBI. We included them in the denominator for an SBI rate of 1.8% (5/282).

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ER  -