TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of postnatal age on neonatal intensive care unit bloodstream infection reporting
AU - for the CDC Prevention Epicenter Program
AU - Ambalam, Viraj
AU - Sick-Samuels, Anna C.
AU - Johnson, Julia
AU - Colantuoni, Elizabeth
AU - Gadala, Avinash
AU - Rock, Clare
AU - Milstone, Aaron M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.
PY - 2021/9
Y1 - 2021/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Bloodstream infections
KW - Hospital-onset bacteremia
KW - Neonatal intensive care unit
KW - Public reporting
KW - Risk adjustment
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ajic.2021.03.018
DO - 10.1016/j.ajic.2021.03.018
M3 - Article
C2 - 33819494
AN - SCOPUS:85105274563
SN - 0196-6553
VL - 49
SP - 1191
EP - 1193
JO - American Journal of Infection Control
JF - American Journal of Infection Control
IS - 9
ER -