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Vicky Currie

Vicky Currie

Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Don't Forget the Bubbles Bubble Wrap Editor

May 29, 2026

18:32
Yeah
18:32
... because some of the children were more unwell, essentially.
18:35
They basically merged those two datasets, and with that they got kind of round 2,749 infants that were less than 60 days, and their kind of prevalence of a serious bacterial infection within that was about somewhere between 10, 10 to 12%.
18:50
Um, and the majority of those were UTIs.
18:53
In the Maffici study, there was only about kind of half of them that had a urinalysis done, but kind of, um, there was a higher percentage of those in the Swedish study that were able to get the f- the same, essentially the same dataset.
19:06
So as we said, we were looking at performance against the PCARN tool and then kind of how CRP could be substituted.
19:13
Applied the PCARN rule to that Swedish cohort because they had, um, procalcitonin values that they were able to do sort of like for like.

13 MINS LATER

32:23
A number needed to observe sort of thing.

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