Health Management for Older Adults III - Fever and Infection in the Elderly -- Fever in the Elderly

< i > Fever and Infection in the Elderly -- Fever in the Elderly

When fever is recognized, diagnostic assessment and therapy should be guided by the results of the patient's history and physical

even in the absence of localizing symptoms, signs or with negative preliminary laboratory findings, occult bacterial infection should be suspected in an elderly patient with new onset fever