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Pediatric emerg medicine; Chair, Emergency Medicine @UCDavisHealth; Internationalist; Daddy of 3 great daughters; lucked out with great wife. Tweets are my own.
Aug 30, 2020 8 tweets 4 min read
Good to see worldwide interest in the febrile infant. As authors of the PECARN febrile infant rule being analyzed here, we have some observations: 1) The Velasco study was a retrospective analysis of a registry at one hospital in Spain. In contrast, the PECARN study was a prospective study in 20 centers analyzed by an independent data center.