Validation of a clinical score for the diagnosis of late onset neonatal septicemia in babies weighing 1000-2500g

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 66-69

  Kudawla, Meenakshi ^a   Dutta, Sourabh ^a   Narang, Anil ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ACHROMOBACTER ANITRATUM; ACINETOBACTER; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER AERUGINOSA; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TACHYCARDIA; VALIDATION STUDY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 39049094183     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmm065     Document Type: Article

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