TY - JOUR T1 - EBV-requisitioning physicians’ guess on fatigue state 6 months after acute EBV infection JF - BMJ Paediatrics Open DO - 10.1136/bmjpo-2018-000390 VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - e000390 AU - Tarjei Tørre Asprusten AU - Maria Pedersen AU - Eva Skovlund AU - Vegard Bruun Wyller Y1 - 2019/02/01 UR - http://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/3/1/e000390.abstract N2 - We assessed referring medical practitioner’s ability to predict chronic fatigue development in adolescents presenting with acute infectious mononucleosis. Compared with ‘not fatigued’ being predicted as ‘unsurely fatigued’ and ‘likely fatigued’ were both strongly associated with developing fatigue 6 months later (OR 2.5, 95% CI 1.16% to 5.47% and 3.2, 95% CI 1.19% to 8.61%, respectively, P=0.012). The positive and negative predictive values were 66% and 62%, respectively. Disentangling the physician’s intuition may be of interest in further investigations of risk factors and prophylactic factors for fatigue development. ER -