Excluding Clinically Significant Bacteremia by 24 Hours in Otherwise Well Febrile Children Younger Than 16 Years: A Study of More Than 50,000 Blood Cultures - PubMed

Clinically significant bacteremia can be excluded by 24 hours incubation in well-appearing febrile children with no comorbidities or features of sepsis. This is the largest dataset of its kind, and the second to compare neonates and older children. Our findings may inform future guidelines, facilita…