Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · May 2010
Comparative StudyParental fever attitude and management: influence of parental ethnicity and child's age.
The objective was to study parental fever management and attitude toward fever from the perspective of the child's ethnicity and age. ⋯ For most children in our population, the use of antipyretics was justified, as the majority of our children visiting the PED for an acute febrile episode are young infants, in particular with a high degree of fever and accompanying symptoms. We confirm and extend previous findings of ethnicity influencing parental fever management.