Monthly Archives:March 2019

The cost of diagnostic uncertainty: sorting out the tigers from the pussycats in childhood fever

Sick child with high fever

缺乏一个准确的诊断测试t for childhood fever has resulted in a cautious approach to treatment, often involving antibiotic administration and sometimes hospital admission. But with rising antibiotic resistance and a stretched health service, improved diagnostics are desperately needed. A newstudy inBMC Medicineinvestigates just how impactful a rapid and reliable diagnostic test would be.

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