Society guideline links: Febrile young infants (younger than 90 days of age)

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United States

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Clinical practice guideline for the evaluation and management of well-appearing febrile infants 8 to 60 days old (2021)

●American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM): Clinical practice guideline – During the emergency department evaluation of a well appearing neonate with fever, should empiric acyclovir be initiated? (2017)

●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Clinical policy for well-appearing infants and children younger than 2 years of age presenting to the emergency department with fever (2016)

●AAEM: Clinical practice guideline - Does the urine dipstick and/or the urine microanalysis correlated with a culture positive UTI in febrile children? (2010)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Quality standard on fever in under 5s (2014, updated 2022)

●NICE: Guideline on fever in under 5s – Assessment and initial management (2019, updated 2021)

India

●Academic College of Emergency Experts in India (ACEE-INDIA): Consensus guidelines on evaluation and management of the febrile child presenting to the emergency department in India (2017)

Australia–New Zealand

●Government of South Australia (SA Health): Paediatric clinical practice guideline on fever in children aged 1-2 months (2012, revised 2020)

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Do not routinely prescribe oral antibiotics to children with fever without an identified bacterial infection (reviewed 2017)