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- Published on: 22 March 2016
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- Published on: 22 March 2016Efforts to reduce the gap between research and practice: the Italian experienceShow More
Efforts to reduce the gap between research and practice: the Italian experience
Elena Chiappini (1), Filippo Festini (1), Riccardo Longhi(2), Franscesca Bonsignori (1), Maurizio de Martino (1)
(1)Department of Paediatrics, University of Florence, Italy (2)Department of Paediatrics, Sant’Anna Hospital, Como, Italy
Key words: fever, antipyretics, guidelines
Corresponding author: Prof. M...
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None declared. - Published on: 22 March 2016Is the evidence regarding fever management up to date?Show More
We read with interest El-Radhi’s article on the management of fever and whilst we agree that fever is a very common complaint a more recent paper by Armon et al showed that the most common medical presenting complaint to a UK paediatric emergency department was breathing difficulties (31%). Febrile illness was the second most common of medical ED attendances (20%) with similar figures demonstrated in other contemporary...
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