Table 8

Clinical details in patients where panel and PAEP rating differed

Age	Clinical details and panel comment	Discharge diagnosis	PAEP criterion
Panel appropriate but PAEP inappropriate
7 months	Rash and fever needed observation. Mother age 17 years and anxious	Viral infection
6 months	Febrile convulsion and postictal	Febrile convulsion
5 years	Fever and drowsy	Upper respiratory infection
13 months	Diarrhoea, temperature 39°C , dehydrated	Gastroenteritis
5 years	Head injury, parents very anxious	Head injury
9 weeks	Diarrhoea and vomiting, mild dehydration	Gastroenteritis
13 months	First febrile convulsion	Febrile convulsion
PAEP appropriate but panel inappropriate
3 weeks	Feeding problem8-150	Feeding problem	Need for observation
19 months	Scabies rash, parents requested admission8-150	Scabies	Not responding to outpatient treatment
16 months	Mild bronchiolitis8-150	Bronchiolitis	Intermittent or continuous respirator use at least every eight hours
4 months	Vomiting and failure to thrive8-150, weight normal on admission	Vomiting	Need for special observation or close monitoring of behaviour including energy intake in cases of failure to thrive
14 years	Fit in a child with cerebral palsy and severe learning disability who refused medication. Respite care could have prevented admission	Fit	Need for special observation or close monitoring of behaviour including energy intake in cases of failure to thrive
2 years	Given large dose of paracetamol by error8-150	Ingestion	Observation for toxic reaction to medication
22 months	Fever and cough8-150	Otitis media	Condition not responding to outpatient management
20 months	Upper respiratory infection with five week history8-150	Upper respiratory infection	Condition not responding to outpatient management
4 years	Swelling in neck with tonsillitis8-150	Streptococcal tonsillitis	Condition not responding to outpatient management

↵8-150 Panel commented that patient could have been managed as outpatient.