Variability in Invasive Bacterial Infection Proportions Among Febrile Infants Aged 8-90 Days Using Administrative Data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Despite decades of research, knowledge is limited regarding sociodemographic risk factors (eg, sex, rural/urban residence) for invasive bacterial infections (IBIs; bacteremia, bacterial meningitis) in young febrile infants and outcomes of current management strategies. Population-based administrative datasets can provide epidemiological insights not possible with clinical data but are limited because diagnosis codes alone may not accurately reflect culture-positive bacteremia or meningitis infections. Thus, using different IBI case definitions, we report IBI and missed IBI proportions in a population of febrile infants aged 8-90 days.

Methods

For this cross-sectional study, we used New York State's all-payer database to identify healthy, full-term infants with feve

SUBMITTER: Yaeger JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11842202 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature