Objectives:
To study the reasons why so many families bring their children to an urgent care center for the chief complaint of fever instead of bringing them to a primary care setting.
Hypothesis:
Parents bring children to urgent care as they believe that fever is a dangerous condition. Due to this concern, they feel that they cannot wait for an appointment in primary care or that primary care lacks the facilities (laboratory tests/radiology/interventions) to properly care for this condition.
Methods:
To interview by structured questionnaire 350 families that bring children to TEREM Urgent Care Centers for a chief complaint of fever. The questionnaire will be translated into four languages. The study population will be designed to assure sampling from a range of populations including the middle class, new immigrants, the Arab and Ultra-orthodox sectors.
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