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Validating a decision tree for serious infection: diagnostic accuracy in acutely ill children in ambulatory care.
August 19, 2015
Verbakel JY, Lemiengre MB, De Burghgraeve T, et al. BMJ Open. 2015;5(8):e008657.
A decision algorithm for primary care physicians accurately identified children at risk of serious illness requiring hospital admission. Physicians' gut feeling that a child was seriously ill proved to be one of the most accurate predictive factors.
