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More than two million children under five attend hospital emergency departments every year.

‘Traffic Light’ tool used by GPs to assess seriously unwell children is ‘unreliable’

A tool used by GPs to help identify seriously unwell children may not accurately detect or exclude acute illness, according to an evaluation using data from UK general practice.

The study, led by Cardiff University, assessed data from more than 6,700 cases and concluded the widely used National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Traffic Light system “cannot be relied...