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Febrile Seizures without Neurologic Disease — Goals and Metrics — Clinical Pathway: Emergency Department, Inpatient, Outpatient Specialty Care and Primary Care

Febrile Seizures without Neurologic Disease Clinical Pathway — Emergency Department, Inpatient, Outpatient Specialty Care and Primary Care

Goals

  • Standardize ED, outpatient and inpatient:
    • Classification and identification of high-risk children
    • Management of febrile seizures
    • Admission and discharge criteria
    • Discharge education and instructions
  • Provide timely educational resources to improve parental satisfaction
  • Reduce:
    • ED Length of Stay
    • Unnecessary routine lab testing, lumbar puncture, neuroimaging and subspecialty consultation for children with a simple febrile seizure

Metrics

  • Pathway use
  • Labs/imaging use for simple febrile seizures

 

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