title: Fever notions of the misinformed: a quality improvement project.
abstract: Tracking temperatures graphically, recognizing their normal quotidian variations, and acknowledging that fever may be a beneficial physiological response to infection, have been lost in modern hospital care. Further, injudicious use of antibiotics for "low-grade fever" contributes to the multiple drug resistant organism and Clostridium difficile epidemics. This essay discusses these issues and proposes changing common misperceptions of fever as a quality improvement project.
authors.forename: Clifford G
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Wlodaver
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001831:Body Temperature; D005334:Fever / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D058996:Quality Improvement
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents