Systemic review of age brackets in pediatric emergency medicine literature and the development of a universal age classification for pediatric emergency patients - the Munich Age Classification System (MACS)

Systemic review of age brackets in pediatric emergency medicine literature and the development of a universal age classification for pediatric emergency patients - the Munich Age Classification System (MACS)

Abstract Currently arbitrary, inconsistent and non-evidence-based age cutoffs are used in the literature to classify pediatric emergencies. None of these classifications have valid medical rationale. This leads to confusion and poor comparability of the different study results. To clarify this probl...

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Main Authors: Alexander Althammer, Stephan Prückner, Geogr Christian Gehring, Victoria Lieftüchter, Heiko Trentzsch, Florian Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-07-01
Series:BMC Emergency Medicine
Subjects:
Age classification
Pediatric emergency
Age limits
Classify pediatric emergencies
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-023-00851-5

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12873-023-00851-5

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