TY - JOUR T1 - ‘So why didn’t you think this baby was ill?’ Decision-making in acute paediatrics JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed DO - 10.1136/archdischild-2017-313199 SP - edpract-2017-313199 AU - Damian Roland AU - Edward Snelson Y1 - 2018/03/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/early/2018/02/28/archdischild-2017-313199.abstract N2 - Determining severity of illness and undertaking an adequate risk assessment is a fundamental part of acute paediatric practice. This review highlights physiology, communication, heuristics and external elements as factors which influence decision-making and discusses how incidence of disease and seniority of clinician impact might influence outcomes. ER -