Best Practice for Prolonged Fever in Primary Care Setting: Close Follow-Up or Empiric Antibiotic Therapy? / 가정의학회지
Korean Journal of Family Medicine
;
: 318-321, 2018.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-717103
ABSTRACT
The management of prolonged fever in low-socioeconomic-status areas by primary care providers such as general practitioners is challenging. Given the endemic nature of many infectious diseases, physicians typically start empirical antibiotic therapy following a limited diagnostic workup including serologic examinations. Herein, we report the case of a young male patient with prolonged fever and arthralgia initially diagnosed with and treated for brucellosis but with a confirmed diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus on follow-up. This unique case shows that close follow-up is the best practice for managing prolonged fever in cases with non-specific laboratory findings.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Primary Health Care
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Brucellosis
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Communicable Diseases
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Follow-Up Studies
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Practice Guidelines as Topic
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Arthralgia
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Diagnosis
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General Practitioners
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Fever
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Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Practice guideline
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
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Male
Language:
English
Journal:
Korean Journal of Family Medicine
Year:
2018
Type:
Article
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