Variation in hospital admission in febrile children evaluated at the Emergency Department (ED) in Europe: PERFORM, a multicentre prospective observational study.

<h4>Objectives</h4>Hospitalisation is frequently used as a marker of disease severity in observational Emergency Department (ED) studies. The comparison of ED admission rates is complex in potentially being influenced by the characteristics of the region, ED, physician and patient. We ai...

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Main Authors: Dorine M Borensztajn, Nienke N Hagedoorn, Irene Rivero Calle, Ian K Maconochie, Ulrich von Both, Enitan D Carrol, Juan Emmanuel Dewez, Marieke Emonts, Michiel van der Flier, Ronald de Groot, Jethro Herberg, Benno Kohlmaier, Emma Lim, Federico Martinon-Torres, Daan Nieboer, Ruud G Nijman, Marko Pokorn, Franc Strle, Maria Tsolia, Clementien Vermont, Shunmay Yeung, Dace Zavadska, Werner Zenz, Michael Levin, Henriette A Moll, PERFORM consortium: Personalised Risk assessment in febrile children to optimise Real-life Management across the European Union
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244810