Management of febrile children in the conjugate pneumococcal vaccine era.

The objective of this study was to evaluate physician attitudes toward the management of young febrile children since the introduction of the conjugate heptavalent pneumococcal vaccine (PCV 7). Seven thousand five hundred pediatricians and 7,500 emergency department (ED) physicians were surveyed with regard to their management of a febrile 7-month-old child and 20-month-old child without an apparent fever focus. Specifically, physicians were asked how they would manage a febrile child who had and who had not been vaccinated with PCV 7.