Although febrile self-referred children were less severely ill than GP-referred children, many parents properly judged and acted on the severity of their child's illness.
To avoid delayed or missed diagnoses, recommendations regarding interventions that would discourage self-referral to the emergency department should be reconsidered.
2012-03-02
Eng.
Pediatrics
Department of General Pediatrics, Erasmus MC/Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands. y.vanierland [at] erasmusmc.nl
Pediatrics. 2012 Mar;129(3):e643-51
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