Clinical practice guideline for the evaluation of fever and infection in older adult residents of long-term care facilit

GUIDELINE TITLE
Clinical practice guideline for the evaluation of fever and infection in older adult residents of long-term care facilities: 2008 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCE(S)
High KP, Bradley SF, Gravenstein S, Mehr DR, Quagliarello VJ, Richards C, Yoshikawa TT. Clinical practice guideline for the evaluation of fever and infection in older adult residents of long-term care facilities: 2008 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 2009 Jan 15;48(2):149-71. PubMed

GUIDELINE STATUS
This is the current release of the guideline.

This guideline updates a previous version: Bentley DW, Bradley S, High K, Schoenbaum S, Taler G, Yoshikawa TT. Practice guidelines for evaluation of fever and infection in long-term care facilities. Clin Infect Dis 2000 Sep;31(3):640-53. [108 references]

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Clinical practice guideline for the evaluation of fever and infection in older adult residents of long-term care facilit