What have we learned from observational studies on neonatal sepsis?

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2005, Pages

  Escobar, Gabriel J ^a  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Likelihood ratios; Neonatal; Observational studies; Sepsis; Severity of illness; Study designs

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; OXYGEN;

ANAMNESIS; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATIENT SELECTION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THEORY;

BACTEREMIA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 19444383918     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000161586.06575.78     Document Type: Review

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