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Day care center illness: policy and practice in North Carolina.

S E Landis and J A Earp

School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599.

We surveyed 62 North Carolina day care centers (DCCs) to determine their policies for excluding children. We found that the addition of a temperature of 100-101 degrees F to each of eight symptoms was associated with an increase in the percentage of DCCs choosing "immediate pick-up." Non-profit centers were more likely to send children home (70 per cent) than for-profit centers (48 per cent). Centers with and without written illness policies did not differ in their management of sick children.

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