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Question: Among febrile neonates ≤30 days of age evaluated in an emergency department, what are the prevalence and clinical characteristics of urinary tract infection?
Question type: Occurrence
Study design: Retrospective case series
Investigators at Maimonides Medical Center (MMC), Brooklyn, NY performed a retrospective chart review of febrile infants age ≤30 days evaluated in their emergency department (ED) from 2004 to 2013 to determine the prevalence and characteristics of urinary tract infection (UTI). Per MMC ED protocol, all febrile infants ≤30 days old have cerebrospinal fluid, blood, and urine collected (with urinalysis [UA] and urine culture [UC] obtained by bladder catheterization) and are subsequently hospitalized for parenteral antibiotic therapy pending culture results. For this study, fever was defined …
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