Clinical parameters predicting failure of empirical antibacterial therapy in early onset neonatal sepsis, identified by classification and regression tree analysis

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Metsvaht, Tuuli ^a   Pisarev, Heti ^b   Ilmoja, Mari Liis ^c   Parm, Ülle ^b   Maipuu, Lea ^a   Merila, Mirjam ^a   Müürsepp, Piia ^a   Lutsar, Irja ^b  

^a TARTU UNIVERSITY CLINICS   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c TALLINN CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; FLUCONAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN SEPSIS; ONSET AGE; PERITONITIS; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; CLASSIFICATION; ESTONIA; FOLLOW UP; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ESTONIA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 72049124565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-9-72     Document Type: Article

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