A Quantitative, Risk-Based Approach to the Management of Neonatal Early-Onset Sepsis

2017459 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Michael W. Kuzniewicz · Colorado Permanente Medical Group

Karen M. Puopolo · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Allen Fischer · Colorado Permanente Medical Group

Eileen M. Walsh · Kaiser Permanente

Sherian Li · Kaiser Permanente

Thomas B. Newman · University of California, San Francisco

Patricia Kipnis

Abstract

Clinical care algorithms based on individual infant estimates of EOS risk derived from a multivariable risk prediction model reduced the proportion of newborns undergoing laboratory testing and receiving empirical antibiotic treatment without apparent adverse effects.

Topics & Keywords

Neonatal and Maternal Infections Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment Preterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: JAMA Pediatrics

Volume 171, Issue 4, pp. 365-365

DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.4678

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