The article titled “Defining fever-related discomfort in children: an international Delphi consensus” is reported as an international expert consensus effort using a Delphi consensus methodology to address the concept of fever-related discomfort in children. The accessible PubMed page excerpt identifies the work as a consensus project but does not include the article abstract or full text content in the provided excerpt.
The available bibliographic record indicates the publication appeared in the European Journal of Pediatrics in 2026. The source labels the work explicitly as an international Delphi consensus; however, the PubMed excerpt does not provide the Delphi methods, number of rounds, panel composition, or the specific items that were evaluated and agreed upon.
The publication lists a large, international group of contributors and indicates that several authors contributed equally. The first-listed author is Gregorio P Milani, with affiliations to the Department of Pharmacy, Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Calabria, and the Pediatric Unit, Annunziata Hospital, Cosenza, Italy. Coauthors include Edward Purssell, David Martin, François Corrard, Eunicia Tan, Janice E Sullivan, Eefje G P M de Bont, Santiago Mintegi, Mario G Bianchetti, Sebastiano A G Lava, Elena Chiappini, and others.
Affiliated institutions span multiple countries and specialties, including pediatric units, emergency departments, family medicine departments, pharmacy and health sciences, pediatric cardiology, and pediatric infectious diseases units. Countries represented in the affiliation list include Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, New Zealand, the United States, The Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland.
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From the title and indexing record, the stated aim is to define fever-related discomfort in the pediatric population through an international Delphi process. A Delphi consensus typically seeks to harmonize expert opinion across disciplines and geographies to produce a definition or set of criteria where empirical evidence may be heterogeneous or lacking.
The PubMed excerpt does not include the consensus statements themselves, any proposed diagnostic criteria, symptom lists, assessment tools, or graded definitions. It also does not specify the clinical contexts addressed (for example, acutely febrile children in primary care versus hospitalized patients), age ranges, or how the consensus would be operationalized in practice.
The provided source text is largely bibliographic and administrative (authors, affiliations, journal citation, DOI, and PMID). It explicitly lacks the following details in the excerpt:
Because these substantive elements are not present in the provided excerpt, they cannot be summarized or paraphrased here. Any reader seeking the consensus content, recommended definition, or clinical implications must consult the full article via the journal, PubMed central links if available, or the DOI.
The article represents an international, multidisciplinary attempt to define a clinically important but variably described concept: fever-related discomfort in children.
The bibliographic record and broad international authorship suggest the work may inform clinical assessment, parent counselling, or research standardization, but specific guidance is not extractable from the excerpt.
To apply or cite the consensus recommendations in clinical practice, guideline development, or research, clinicians and investigators should retrieve and review the full article for the Delphi methodology, consensus statements, exact wording of the definition, and any proposed assessment approach.
The DOI (10.1007/s00431-026-07340-4) and PubMed PMID (42680903) are provided in the record to facilitate access to the complete publication.
Note: This rewritten summary uses only the information present in the provided PubMed excerpt. The excerpt did not include the article abstract, methodological detail, the Delphi outcomes, or the consensus definition text; those details were not reported in the provided source and are therefore not included here.