ReviewJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2004
Nosocomial infection in the NICU: a medical complication or unavoidable problem?
Review in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Viral outbreaks in neonatal intensive care units: what we do not know.American journal of infection control · 2013Pooled it
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- Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Commensal, Community-Acquired and NosocomialMicroorganisms · 2021Article
- Extensively-Drug ResistantFrontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Disparities in Health Care-Associated Infections in the NICU.American journal of perinatology · 2020Article
- Less is More: Modern Neonatology.Rambam Maimonides medical journal · 2018Review
- Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease in Otherwise Healthy Infants: Failure of Specific Neonatal Immune Responses.Frontiers in immunology · 2017Article
- Evaluation of Vancomycin Use in Late-Onset Neonatal Sepsis Using the Area Under the Concentration-Time Curve to the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration ≥400 Target.Therapeutic drug monitoring · 2015Article
- Epidemiology of Neonatal Sepsis and Implicated Pathogens: A Study from Egypt.BioMed research international · 2015Article
- Determination of vancomycin pharmacokinetics in neonates to develop practical initial dosing recommendations.Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy · 2014Article
- Reducing neonatal infections in south and south central Vietnam: the views of healthcare providers.BMC pediatrics · 2013Article
- Probiotics and prebiotics: role in prevention of nosocomial sepsis in preterm infants.International journal of pediatrics · 2013Article
- Healthcare-associated infections in a neonatal intensive care unit.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2012Article
- Trends in incidence of neonatal sepsis and antibiotic susceptibility of causative agents in two neonatal intensive care units in tehran, I.R iran.Journal of clinical neonatology · 2012Article
- Coagulase-negative staphylococcal infections in the neonatal intensive care unit.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2011Article
- Iatrogenic complications in the neonatal intensive care unit.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2010Review
- The changing spectrum of neonatal infectious disease.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2010Review
- Bacillus licheniformis septicemia in a very-low-birth-weight neonate: a case report.Infection · 2009Article
- Nosocomial infection in small for gestational age newborns with birth weight <1500 g: a multicentre analysis.Archives of disease in childhood. Fetal and neonatal edition · 2007Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
Nosocomial sepsis is a serious problem for neonates who are admitted for intensive care. As it is associated with increases in mortality, morbidity, and prolonged length of hospital stay, both the human and fiscal costs of these infections are high. Although the rate of nosocomial sepsis increases with the degree of both prematurity and low birth weight, no specific lab test has been shown to be very useful in improving our ability to predict who has a "real" blood-stream infection and, therefore, who needs to be treated with a full course of antibiotics. As a result, antibiotic use is double the rate of "proven" sepsis and we are facilitating the growth of resistant organisms in the neonatal intensive care unit. The purpose of this article is to review the topic of nosocomial infections in neonates.
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