22/12/2025
📢 More evidence from pediatric urgent care settings is in: continues to demonstrate meaningful clinical impact in real-world care.
Diagnosing acute infections in children at urgent care centers is often challenging. Physicians must decide, often under timely pressure, whether to prescribe antibiotics or refer a child to the ED, frequently with incomplete or ambiguous clinical information. Having a reliable tool to support these decisions can make a real difference for patients, families, and the healthcare system.
A new pragmatic, real-world study evaluated the use of in pediatric urgent care centers when physicians faced diagnostic uncertainty. The findings highlight MeMed BV’s ability to safely guide decision-making:
✔️ 26% discouraged ED referrals
✔️ 81% physician adherence to MeMed BV result
✔️ 82% physicians reported MeMed BV changed or supported their prescribing decision
✔️ 62% fewer unnecessary antibiotics for viral infections
✔️ 77 % treated appropriately when bacterial infection detected
✔️ Highest impact vs. other biomarkers on antibiotic prescribing (OR 0.07)
Together, these results add yet another layer of evidence from pediatric urgent care settings, showing how MeMed BV supported safe and confident clinical decision-making for pediatric acute infections in urgent care settings.
Full publication here 👇
10.1542/6378834658112Video AbstractPEDS-VA_2024-0699616378834658112OBJECTIVE. Evaluate impact of MeMed BV (MMBV) host-protein test on clinical decision-making for children with acute infection in urgent care centers (UCCs).METHODS. Pragmatic study examining real-world use of MMBV by physicians train...