Evaluating a Modified Use of the Kaiser Permanente Early-onset Sepsis Risk Calculator to Reduce Antibiotic Exposure: a Retrospective Study

• Main Authors: Ahmed Mustafa (Author), Mohammed Yasir Alhindi (Author), Faisal Ghazi Almalki (Author), Saif Al Saif (Author), Abdulaziz Almalahi (Author), Mawaddah Hesham Alsaegh (Author), Mansour Abdullah AlQurashi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMJ Publishing Group, 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Early-onset neonatal sepsis (EONS) remains an important disease entity due to very serious adverse outcomes if left untreated. Lack of diagnostic tools in identifying healthy from diseased neonates, and clinicians' fear of the missing positive-culture sepsis babies, or babies with cl...