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Taft M, Garrison J, Fabio A, Shah N, Forster CS. Equity in Receipt of a Lumbar Puncture for Febrile Infants at an Academic Center. Hosp Pediatr 2023; 13:216-222. [PMID: 36785977 DOI: 10.1542/hpeds.2022-006799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The evaluation of febrile infants ≤60 days of age is often guided by established protocols. However, structural racism and physicians' implicit bias may affect how such clinical guidelines are applied. OBJECTIVE To determine the association between self-identified race, insurance type, ZIP code-based median household income (MHI) and receiving a guideline-concordant lumbar puncture (GCLP) in febrile infants. METHODS This was a 3-year retrospective cross-sectional study of all febrile infants ≤60 days old presenting to a children's hospital from 2015 to 2017. GCLP was defined as obtaining or appropriately not obtaining a lumbar puncture as defined by the hospital's clinical practice guideline, which recommended performing a lumbar puncture for all febrile infants ≤60 days of age unless an infant was >28 days of age and had respiratory syncytial virus-positive bronchiolitis. Univariate analyses were used to identify variables associated with receiving a GCLP. Variables with a P < .1 were included in a multivariate logistic regression with race, MHI, and insurance type. RESULTS We included 965 infants. Age (adjusted odds ratio, 0.95; 95% confidence interval, 0.94-0.97) and temperature on arrival (adjusted odds ratio, 1.36; 95% confidence interval, 1.04-1.78) were significantly associated with receipt of a GCLP. Self-identified race, insurance type, and MHI were not associated with receiving a GCLP. CONCLUSION Receipt of a GCLP was not associated with race, MHI, or insurance type. As recent national guidelines change to increase shared decision-making, physician awareness and ongoing assessment of the role of factors such as race and socioeconomic status in the clinical evaluation and outcomes of febrile infants will be critical.
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Affiliation(s)
- Maia Taft
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.,Paul C. Gaffney Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.,Paul C. Gaffney Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.,Paul C. Gaffney Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Mahajan P, VanBuren JM, Tzimenatos L, Cruz AT, Vitale M, Powell EC, Leetch AN, Pickett ML, Brayer A, Nigrovic LE, Dayan PS, Atabaki SM, Ruddy RM, Rogers AJ, Greenberg R, Alpern ER, Tunik MG, Saunders M, Muenzer J, Levine DA, Hoyle JD, Lillis KG, Gattu R, Crain EF, Borgialli D, Bonsu B, Blumberg S, Anders J, Roosevelt G, Browne LR, Cohen DM, Linakis JG, Jaffe DM, Bennett JE, Schnadower D, Park G, Mistry RD, Glissmeyer EW, Cator A, Bogie A, Quayle KS, Ellison A, Balamuth F, Richards R, Ramilo O, Kuppermann N. Serious Bacterial Infections in Young Febrile Infants With Positive Urinalysis Results. Pediatrics 2022; 150:e2021055633. [PMID: 36097858 PMCID: PMC9648158 DOI: 10.1542/peds.2021-055633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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It is unknown whether febrile infants 29 to 60 days old with positive urinalysis results require routine lumbar punctures for evaluation of bacterial meningitis. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of bacteremia and/or bacterial meningitis in febrile infants ≤60 days of age with positive urinalysis (UA) results. METHODS Secondary analysis of a prospective observational study of noncritical febrile infants ≤60 days between 2011 and 2019 conducted in the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network emergency departments. Participants had temperatures ≥38°C and were evaluated with blood cultures and had UAs available for analysis. We report the prevalence of bacteremia and bacterial meningitis in those with and without positive UA results. RESULTS Among 7180 infants, 1090 (15.2%) had positive UA results. The risk of bacteremia was higher in those with positive versus negative UA results (63/1090 [5.8%] vs 69/6090 [1.1%], difference 4.7% [3.3% to 6.1%]). There was no difference in the prevalence of bacterial meningitis in infants ≤28 days of age with positive versus negative UA results (∼1% in both groups). However, among 697 infants aged 29 to 60 days with positive UA results, there were no cases of bacterial meningitis in comparison to 9 of 4153 with negative UA results (0.2%, difference -0.2% [-0.4% to -0.1%]). In addition, there were no cases of bacteremia and/or bacterial meningitis in the 148 infants ≤60 days of age with positive UA results who had the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network low-risk blood thresholds of absolute neutrophil count <4 × 103 cells/mm3 and procalcitonin <0.5 ng/mL. CONCLUSIONS Among noncritical febrile infants ≤60 days of age with positive UA results, there were no cases of bacterial meningitis in those aged 29 to 60 days and no cases of bacteremia and/or bacterial meningitis in any low-risk infants based on low-risk blood thresholds in both months of life. These findings can guide lumbar puncture use and other clinical decision making.
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Affiliation(s)
- Prashant Mahajan
- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics,
Children's Hospital of Michigan, Wayne State University, Detroit,
Michigan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Primary Children’s
Medical Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Sections of Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases,
Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of
Medicine, Houston, Texas
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- Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, University of
Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
| | - Elizabeth C. Powell
- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics,
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics,
University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona
| | - Michelle L. Pickett
- Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics,
University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York
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- Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s
Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
| | - Peter S. Dayan
- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York
City, New York
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- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, Children’s National Medical Center, The George Washington School
of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia
| | - Richard M. Ruddy
- Division of Emergency Medicine, Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics, University of
Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Departments of Pediatrics
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Primary Children’s
Medical Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
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- Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children’s
Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Pediatrics
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Bellevue Hospital, New
York University Langone Medical Center, New York City, New York
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Helen DeVos
Children’s Hospital of Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, Michigan
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- Department of Pediatrics, Women and Children’s
Hospital of Buffalo, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New
York
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- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland
| | - Ellen F. Crain
- Department of Pediatrics, Jacobi Medical Center, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, New York
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Hurley Medical Center,
Flint, Michigan
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- Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics,
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
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- Department of Pediatrics, Jacobi Medical Center, Albert
Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, New York
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- Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Colorado
Children’s Hospital, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, Colorado
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- Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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- Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Brown
University and Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
| | - David M. Jaffe
- Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children’s
Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Alfred I.
duPont Hospital for Children, Nemours Children's Health System, Wilmington,
Delaware
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- Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children’s
Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Pediatric Emergency
Medicine, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- Department of Pediatrics, The Colorado
Children’s Hospital, University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, Colorado
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- Department of Pediatrics, Primary Children’s
Medical Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Departments of Pediatrics
- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
| | - Amanda Bogie
- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma
| | - Kimberly S. Quayle
- Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children’s
Hospital, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
| | - Angela Ellison
- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
| | - Fran Balamuth
- Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of
Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
| | - Rachel Richards
- Department of Pediatrics, Primary Children’s
Medical Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Center
for Vaccines and Immunity, Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio
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- Departments of Emergency Medicine
- Pediatrics, University of California Davis School of
Medicine, Sacramento, California
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