Does well-child care education improve consultations and medication management for childhood fever and common infections? A systematic review.

Journal article

Background

Fever is common in preschool children and is often caused by benign self-limiting infections. Parents’ lack of knowledge and fever phobia leads to high healthcare consumption.

Objective

To systematically review the effect of providing educational interventions about childhood fever and common infections in well-child clinics (WCCs), prior to illness episodes, on parental practices: healthcare-seeking behaviour (frequency of physician consultations, appr...

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Authors: Peetoom, K; Smits, J; Ploum, L; Verbakel, J; Dinant, G

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group Publisher's website
• Journal: Archives of Disease in Childhood Journal website
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 261-267
• Publication date: 2017-02-01
• Acceptance date: 2016-06-20
• DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-311042
• EISSN: 1468-2044
• ISSN: 0003-9888
• Pmid: 27432451
• Language: English
• Keywords: Emergency Service, Hospital; Home Nursing; Fever; Child Care; Child; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Parents; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Family Practice; Referral and Consultation; After-Hours Care; Humans; Antipyretics; House Calls; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Bacterial Infections; Remote Consultation