Rochester Criteria for low risk of serious bacterial infection in febrile infants
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To be considered low risk all criteria must be met:

 

  • Infant appears well (no signs of toxicity)

 

  • No skin, soft tissue, bone, joint, or ear infection

 

  • Previously health infant
    • Term birth
    • No perinatal antibiotic therapy
    • No history of unexplained hyperbilirubinemia
    • No previous or current antibiotic therapy
    • Not previously hospitalized except for birth (not hospitalized for longer than the mother)
    • No chronic or underlying illness

 

  • Laboratory values
    • Peripheral WBC count of 5000-15,000/mm^3
    • Total band count of <1500/mm^3
    • <=10 WBC/hpf (x40) on microscopic examination of spun urine sediment
    • <=5 WBC/hpf (x40) on microscopic examination of a stool smear (in infants with diarrhea)