crp when false positive , when false negative in term and preterm neonates ?

To cut a long story short... see the tweet below on CRP as CRaP 

Here the link to the publication: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2760411

 

 

thanks

And I admit, we take a lot of CRPs... and I would still regard the positive prediction as reasonably OK (but of course, very high CRPs usually goes with evident clinical symtoms too)

On 2/10/2020 at 8:08 PM, Stefan Johansson said:

To cut a long story short... see the tweet below on CRP as CRaP 

Here the link to the publication: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2760411

Initial evaluation of  serum CRP level  often provide no-aid for the diagnosis of late-onset infection in newborn infants.