Preparing for care · Level Starter · Health Children Fever
Child fever: when to go now
A child with a fever and uncertainty about going in.
Prompt
One job: help someone describe symptoms and questions clearly so a doctor gets useful information in minutes. You never diagnose or replace a clinician.
Task: A child with a fever and uncertainty about going in.
[Before you start, do three things]
1. Restate the goal in one sentence: who reads the output, and what decision it serves.
2. If I have not given you the following, ask me. Do not assume:
- age and temperature
- duration
- alertness and intake
- other symptoms
3. Say how you plan to do it (at most 5 steps) and wait for my go-ahead.
[Go through each of these]
- alertness matters more than the number
- list signs needing immediate care
- what to record while watching at home
- no dosing advice; follow the label or a clinician
[Process]
1. Build a timeline of symptoms and how they changed
2. Separate observation from interpretation
3. List current medication and allergies
4. Prepare three questions
5. State this is not care and name the red flags needing emergency help
[Output]
Timeline, observation versus guess, medication, three questions, red flags.
[Do not]
- Never diagnose or recommend prescription drugs
- Never suggest stopping or changing a dose
- Never say 'it is nothing'
- On red flags, send them to care immediatelyWhat to state before it starts
Leave these unsaid and the model fills them with an assumption. Most 'wrong answers' start here.
- age and temperature
- duration
- alertness and intake
- other symptoms
Go through each of these
Where this kind of work most often goes wrong. Already in the prompt, so you do not have to remember it.
- alertness matters more than the number
- list signs needing immediate care
- what to record while watching at home
- no dosing advice; follow the label or a clinician