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Younger Age and Female Gender Are Associated With Delayed Antibiotics in Pediatric Sepsis

Published:2024-06-18 Issue:8 Volume:13 Page:434-438
ISSN:2048-7207
Container-title:Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
language:en
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Author:

Kandil Sarah B¹²^ORCID,Lee Seohyuk³^ORCID,Feinn Richard S⁴,Murray Thomas S¹⁵

Affiliation:

1. Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital, Department of Pediatrics , New Haven, Connecticut , USA

2. Yale University, School of Medicine, Deparmtment of Pediatrics, Section of Critical Care Medicine , New Haven, Connecticut , USA

3. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine , Boston, Massachusetts , USA

4. Quinnipiac University, Department of Medical Sciences , Hamden, Connecticut , USA

5. Yale University, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Disease , New Haven, Connecticut , USA

Abstract

Abstract Sepsis is a leading cause of pediatric mortality and timely antibiotic administration has been shown to improve outcomes. In this retrospective review of a single center sepsis dataset, we identified younger age and female sex as more likely to have delays in antibiotics.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Link

https://academic.oup.com/jpids/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/jpids/piae064/58514031/piae064.pdf

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