A case definition for national and international neonatal bloodstream infection surveillance

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Modi, N ^a   Dore C J ^b   Saraswatula, A ^a   Richards, M ^c   Bamford, K B ^a,c   Coello, R ^a   Holmes, A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK MANAGEMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 58349121650     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2007.126458     Document Type: Article

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