Choosing Wisely Overnight? Residents’ Approach to Fever

We surveyed internal medicine residents regarding how they approach febrile patients in cross-cover settings. Residents frequently use the term “full fever work-up,” and rely on this for sign-out. Despite this, residents felt fever work-ups were not evidenced-based, and definitions of when and how t...

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Autores principales: Howard-Anderson, Jessica, Schwab, Kristin, Quinn, Roswell, Graber, Christopher J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5473033/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28638842
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx080
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description We surveyed internal medicine residents regarding how they approach febrile patients in cross-cover settings. Residents frequently use the term “full fever work-up,” and rely on this for sign-out. Despite this, residents felt fever work-ups were not evidenced-based, and definitions of when and how to respond to a fever varied.
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spelling pubmed-54730332017-06-21 Choosing Wisely Overnight? Residents’ Approach to Fever Howard-Anderson, Jessica Schwab, Kristin Quinn, Roswell Graber, Christopher J. Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report We surveyed internal medicine residents regarding how they approach febrile patients in cross-cover settings. Residents frequently use the term “full fever work-up,” and rely on this for sign-out. Despite this, residents felt fever work-ups were not evidenced-based, and definitions of when and how to respond to a fever varied. Oxford University Press 2017-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5473033/ /pubmed/28638842 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx080 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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