Descriptive statistics
On average — excluding parental concern vignettes — the sliding-scale group estimated risk of admission to hospital to be 4.1% (standard deviation [SD] 3.92), 7.9% (SD 5.32), and 11.9% (SD 5.50) for cases classified by STARWAVe as level 1, level 2, and level 3, respectively (data not shown). 
GPs’ management selections are shown in 
In STARWAVe-identified level 2 cases, the commonest action was again GP review (55% [Admission for paediatric assessment was the most-selected option for STARWAVe-identified level 3 cases (64% [Across the board, antibiotics were infrequently prescribed and tended to be immediate (15% and 12% of all cases in the sliding-scale and category-selection groups, respectively) rather than delayed (4% in both groups).