Journal article
Predicting the Outcome of Neonatal Bacterial Meningitis
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To build predictive models of severe adverse outcome at various times in the course of neonatal bacterial meningitis.
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study with follow-up to a minimum age of 1 year of term and near-term infants, admitted between 1979 and 1998 to a regional tertiary care center. Predictors of adverse outcome detectable at 1 year of age (death or moderate or severe neurosensory impairment) were identified by …
Authors
Klinger G; Chin C-N; Beyene J; Perlman M
Journal
, Vol. 106, No. 3, pp. 477–482
Publisher
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Publication Date
September 1, 2000
DOI
10.1542/peds.106.3.477
ISSN
0031-4005