The meeting was sponsored by the Society of Hospital Medicine, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Academic Pediatric Association. Dr. Evans and her coauthors reported having no financial disclosures.
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Bacterial epidemiology shifting nationally in febrile infants
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| Dr. Michelle M. Marks |
Even though this study is retrospective in nature, it points out that the epidemiology of serious bacterial infection in young infants is changing. This is an important first step in understanding the change as well as the desire for further prospective study.
While Dr. Evans and other study participants make a bold statement for change in initial antibiotic coverage in these infants, it has invited national debate and thus puts a spotlight on the subject.
Michelle M. Marks, D.O., is the interim chair of the department of pediatric hospital medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital. She is also medical director of inpatient pediatrics for the Children's Hospital.
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