Red flags could help identify children with serious infections
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 11:56
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- A set of warning signs -- or red flags -- that can be used routinely by doctors to help spot the few children that may have a serious infection from the many with minor coughs and colds, has been identified by a European team led by researchers at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and Oxford University.