Predicting referral need for febrile children in low-resource community settings in South and Southeast Asia

Nature Medicine, Published online: 29 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41591-026-04338-1

A multicountry cohort study found that prediction models combining clinical parameters with either pulse oximetry or the host biomarker sTREM1 more accurately identified febrile children needing referral than standard WHO criteria.

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