Optimising decision making on illness absenteeism due to fever and common infections within childcare centres: development of a multicomponent intervention and study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial

• Main Authors: K. K. B. Peetoom (Author), R. Crutzen (Author), J. M. H. A. Bohnen (Author), R. Verhoeven (Author), H. J. M. G. Nelissen-Vrancken (Author), B. Winkens (Author), G. J. Dinant (Author), J. W. L. Cals (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Evidence has shown that children 0-4 year-old attending childcare are prone to acquire infections compared to children cared for at home, with fever being the most common symptom. Illness absenteeism due to fever and common infections is substantial and mostly driven by unrealist...