Management of Fever in Postpneumococcal Vaccine Era: Comparison of Management Practices by Pediatric Emergency Medicine and General Emergency Medicine Physicians

Table 3

Discharge diagnoses and prescription patterns.

	PED (𝑛=224)	GED (𝑛=237)	𝑃 value
	Diagnosis
Viral (total)	163	140	0.0016
Viral syndrome	103	122	NS
Influenza	16	0	<0.0001
Bronchiolitis	15	8	NS
AGE*	13	5	0.053
Fever	9	1	0.0091
Stomatitis/herpangina	5	2	NS
Croup	2	2	NS
Bacterial (total)	61	97	0.0017
Otitis media	50 (22)	77 (32)	0.016
UTI/pyelonephritis	3	1	NS
Pneumonia	3	3	NS
Sinusitis	4	1	NS
Pharyngitis	0	10	0.0018
Lymphadenitis	1	0	NS
Bronchitis	0	3	NS
Conjunctivitis	0	2	NS
	Prescriptions
Antibiotics	61 (27)	97 (41)	0.002
Antiviral	15 (7)	1 (0)	<0.001

∗Refers to acute gastroenteritis.