Abstract
Paediatric overtesting and overtreatment are well known issues in the field of quality of care. Children are vulnerable, with a potentially fast-changing clinical course, meaning they might have more investigations than an adult, and inappropriate prescription of medications is more common.1 Overtesting and overtreatment of children are especially prominent in infectious diseases, when fever or other symptoms such as cough can be unspecific and can be of viral or bacterial origin. Through the implementation of public health measures, such as vaccination, the spectrum of infectious pathogens has changed.
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