Practice Guidelines for Evaluating New Fever in Critically Ill Adult Patients

Clinical Infectious Diseases  May 1998  V.26  N.5  p.1042–1059

Naomi P. O’Grady Philip S. Barie John G. Bartlett Thomas Bleck Glenda Garvey Judith Jacobi Peter Linden

Dennis G. Maki Myung Nam William Pasculle Michael D. Pasquale Debra L. Tribett Henry Masur

From the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, and the Johns Hopkins Hospital and St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland; the New York Hospital, and the Columbia‐Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, New York; the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and Infectious Disease Physicians, Inc., Annandale, Virginia; the Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana; and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, and the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania

These practice guidelines have been developed by a Task Force of the Society of Critical Care Medicine in collaboration with the IDSA and are part of a series of updated and new guidelines from the IDSA that will appear in CID.

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