Identification of children presenting wi
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Ammann, Roland A. ;Hirt, Andreas ;LΓΌthy, Annette Ridolfi ;Aebi, Christoph
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Background Febrile neutropenia (FN) remains a frequent complication in pediatric onco;logy, requiring emergency hospitalization and empirical broad spectrum antibiotics. The distinction of patients at high versus low risk for severe bacterial infection (SBI) is not fully established