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Variation in Care of the Febrile Young Infant <90 Days in US Pediatric Emergency Departments
Paul L. Aronson, Cary Thurm, Elizabeth R. Alpern, Evaline A. Alessandrini, Derek J. Williams, Samir S. Shah, Lise E. Nigrovic, Russell J. McCulloh, Amanda Schondelmeyer, Joel S. Tieder and Mark I. Neuman
Pediatrics October 2014, 134 (4) 667-677; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2014-1382
Paul L. Aronson
aDepartment of Pediatrics, Section of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut;
Cary Thurm
bChildren’s Hospital Association, Overland Park, Kansas;
Elizabeth R. Alpern
cDivision of Emergency Medicine, Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois;
Evaline A. Alessandrini
dDivisions of Emergency Medicine,
Derek J. Williams
eDivision of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The Monroe Carell Jr Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee;
Samir S. Shah
fHospital Medicine, and
gInfectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio;
Lise E. Nigrovic
hDivision of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;
Russell J. McCulloh
iDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Mercy Hospitals & Clinics, University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri; and
Amanda Schondelmeyer
fHospital Medicine, and
Joel S. Tieder
jDivision of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Seattle Children’s Hospital, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
Mark I. Neuman
hDivision of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;

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Variation in Care of the Febrile Young Infant <90 Days in US Pediatric Emergency Departments
Paul L. Aronson, Cary Thurm, Elizabeth R. Alpern, Evaline A. Alessandrini, Derek J. Williams, Samir S. Shah, Lise E. Nigrovic, Russell J. McCulloh, Amanda Schondelmeyer, Joel S. Tieder, Mark I. Neuman
Pediatrics Oct 2014, 134 (4) 667-677; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-1382
Variation in Care of the Febrile Young Infant <90 Days in US Pediatric Emergency Departments
Paul L. Aronson, Cary Thurm, Elizabeth R. Alpern, Evaline A. Alessandrini, Derek J. Williams, Samir S. Shah, Lise E. Nigrovic, Russell J. McCulloh, Amanda Schondelmeyer, Joel S. Tieder, Mark I. Neuman
Pediatrics Oct 2014, 134 (4) 667-677; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-1382
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