Use of polymerase chain reaction as a diagnostic tool for neonatal sepsis can result in a decrease in use of antibiotics and total neonatal intensive care unit length of stay

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 688-692

  Brozanski, B S ^a   Jones, J G ^a   Krohn, M J ^a   Jordan, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; GENTAMICIN; GLUCOSE; RNA 16S;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; APNEA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BODY TEMPERATURE DISORDER; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; CYANOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECONIUM ASPIRATION; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN SEPSIS; NUTRITIONAL INTOLERANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; COHORT STUDIES; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

EID: 33750476999     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: 14765543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7211597     Document Type: Article

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