Impact of Postnatal Age on Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Bloodstream Infection Reporting

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• Alternative Title:
  Am J Infect Control
• Personal Author:
  Ambalam, Viraj ; Sick-Samuels, Anna C. ; Johnson, Julia ; Colantuoni, Elizabeth ; Gadala, Avinash ; Rock, Clare ; Milstone, Aaron M.
• Corporate Authors:
  CDC Prevention Epicenter Program
• Description:
  Due to their short- and long-term impact on patients in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), bloodstream infections are a closely monitored quality measure. NICU infection rates are risk-adjusted for birth weight, but not postnatal age. Our findings suggest that infection rates are not constant over time in neonates with long NICU lengths of stay and adjusting for postnatal age in addition to birth weight may improve unit comparisons.
• Subjects:
  Article Bacteremia Bloodstream Infections Cross Infection Hospital-onset Bacteremia Humans Infant, Newborn Intensive Care Units, Neonatal Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Public Reporting Risk Adjustment Sepsis

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• Source:
  Am J Infect Control. 49(9):1191-1193
• Pubmed ID:
  33819494
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8405460
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  K23 HD100594/HD/NICHD NIH HHSUnited States/ ; K24 AI141580/AI/NIAID NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U01 CK000554/CK/NCEZID CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01CK000554/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  49
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:61e274b17d03058924b326c7768db2e4607dba3478145951bf31055668e319c3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/109530/cdc_109530_DS1.pdf
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