The "Petechiae in children" (PiC) study: evaluating potential clinical decision rules for the management of feverish children with non-blanching rashes, including the role of point of care testing for Procalcitonin & Neisseria meningitidis DNA - a study protocol

• Main Authors: Thomas Waterfield (Author), Mark D. Lyttle (Author), Derek Fairley (Author), James Mckenna (Author), Kerry Woolfall (Author), Fiona Lynn (Author), Julie-Ann Maney (Author), Damian Roland (Author), Aoife Weir (Author), Michael D. Shields (Author), on behalf of Paediatric Emergency Research in the UK and Ireland (PERUKI) (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Children commonly present to Emergency Departments (ED) with a non-blanching rash in the context of a feverish illness. While most have a self-limiting viral illness, this combination of features potentially represents invasive serious bacterial infection, including meningococcal...