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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1999;153:93-94.

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The recent article by Benaim et al¹ begs for a response because of the way that it negatively depicts the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Pediatric Emergency Medicine, of which I am a member. The central thesis of their study is that pediatric emergency medicine physicians fail to comply with "CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidelines related to hospital admission for PID [pelvic inflammatory disease], postdiagnosis counseling, and timing of follow-up care."¹(p451) They base their study, performed in 1995, on the CDC "Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: Guidelines for Prevention and Management,"² published in 1991. The authors found that, in contrast to the recommendation contained in the guidelines that all adolescents diagnosed with PID be admitted for parenteral antibiotics, only 45% of physicians interviewed routinely admit all adolescents. Even if we are willing to accept that responses from 54 (8%) of 659 members adequately represents the entire section, . . . [Full Text of this Article]