ArticleJournal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association2016
Characteristics of late-onset sepsis in the NICU: does occupancy impact risk of infection?
Article in Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- The association of NICU capacity strain with neonatal mortality and morbidity.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
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- [Recommendations for antibiotic use in hospitalized preterm infants with late-onset sepsis in the neonatal intensive care unit].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2024Article
- Fungi in the indoor air of critical hospital areas: a review.Aerobiologia · 2021Review
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Abstract
objectiveInfants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are vulnerable to a variety of infections, and occupancy in the unit may correlate with risk of infection. STUDY
designA retrospective cohort of infants admitted to the NICUs between 1997 and 2014. Survival analysis was used to model the relative hazard of sepsis infection in relation to two measures of occupancy: 1) the average census and 2) proportion of infants <32 weeks gestation in the unit.
resultThere were 446 (2.3%) lab-confirmed cases of bacterial or fungal sepsis, which steadily declined over time. For each additional percentage of infants <32 weeks gestation, there was an increased hazard of 2% (hazard ratio 1.02, 95% confidence interval: 1.00, 1.03) over their NICU hospitalization. Census was not associated with risk for infection.
conclusionDuring times of a greater proportion of infants <32 weeks gestation in the NICU, enhanced infection-control interventions may be beneficial to further reduce the incidence of infections.
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