Validation of a Clinical Score for the Diagnosis of Late Onset Neonatal Septicemia in Babies Weighing 1000–2500 g

There is paucity of data about the predictive values and likelihood ratios of clinical signs of late onset nosocomial sepsis in neonates. A clinical score comprising of seven items had been derived from analysis of individual signs and had been published by this group in the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics in 2003. The current study was done to validate the score in a fresh validation cohort, to evaluate the score at 0 and 24 h after onset of …