Arch Pediat Adol Med
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Arch Pediat Adol Med · Apr 2000
Clinical decision rule to identify febrile young girls at risk for urinary tract infection.
To develop a clinical prediction rule to identify febrile young girls needing urine culture for evaluation of urinary tract infection (UTI). ⋯ Using this clinical decision rule, a strategy of obtaining urine cultures from girls younger than 2 years with a score of 2 or more would lead to identification of 95% of children with UTI and elimination of 30% of unnecessary urine cultures.