TY - GEN AU - Waterfield,Thomas AU - Lyttle,Mark D AU - Fairley,Derek AU - Mckenna,James AU - Woolfall,Kerry AU - Lynn,Fiona AU - Maney,Julie-Ann AU - Roland,Damian AU - Weir,Aoife AU - Shields,Michael D TI - The "Petechiae in children" (PiC) study: evaluating potential clinical decision rules for the management of feverish children with non-blanching rashes, including the role of point of care testing for Procalcitonin & Neisseria meningitidis DNA - a study protocol SN - 1471-2431 PY - 2019///0813 KW - Biomarkers KW - blood KW - Child KW - Cost-Benefit Analysis KW - DNA, Bacterial KW - isolation & purification KW - Decision Support Techniques KW - Emergency Service, Hospital KW - Exanthema KW - etiology KW - Fever KW - Humans KW - Meningococcal Infections KW - complications KW - Neisseria meningitidis KW - genetics KW - Point-of-Care Testing KW - economics KW - Practice Guidelines as Topic KW - Procalcitonin KW - Prospective Studies KW - Research Design N1 - Publication Type: Clinical Trial Protocol; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-018-1220-x ER -