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    "pk": 16800,
    "title": "Incidence of Serious Bacterial Infections in Ex-premature Infants with a Postconceptional Age Less Than 48 Weeks Presenting to a Pediatric Emergency Department",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Objectives: Premature infants are at higher risk of developing serious bacterial infections (SBI). However, the incidence of SBI in ex-premature infants presenting to the emergency department (ED) remains undetermined. The objective of this study is to examine the incidence of SBI in ex-premature infants with a postconceptional age of less than 48 weeks presenting to a pediatric ED.\n\n\nMethods: A retrospective medical record review was conducted on 141 ex-premature infants with a postconceptional age of less than 48 weeks who had a full or partial septic work up completed in a pediatric ED between January 1, 1998 and March 31, 2005.\n\n\nResults: The overall median gestational age at birth was 35 weeks (IQR 33-36 week) and the overall median postconceptional age at ED presentation was 40 weeks (IQR 37-42 weeks). Thirteen (9.2%) infants were found to have a SBI. Five subjects had pneumonia, four with bacteremia, two with pyelonephritis, and two with a concomitant infection of meningitis/pneumonia and bacteremia/pyelonephritis.\n\n\nConclusion: The results of this study reveal that the incidence of SBI in ex-premature infants with a postconceptional age of less than 48 weeks is similar to in-term infants (9.2%) and is consistent with previously published incidence rates in-term infants (10%).\n\n\n[WestJEM. 2009;10:37-40.]",
    "language": "en",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "serious bacterial infection"
        },
        {
            "word": "premature infants"
        },
        {
            "word": "postconceptional age"
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        {
            "word": "emergency department"
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    "section": "Article",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2r34r87h",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Nobuaki",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Inoue",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Tommy",
            "middle_name": "Y.",
            "last_name": "Kim",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Anne Marie",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Birkbeck-Garcia",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Department of Pediatrics",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Givner",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Desert Regional Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "T. Kent",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Denmark",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Loma Linda University Medical Center and Children’s Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine",
            "department": "None"
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    ],
    "date_submitted": "2008-07-29T11:00:00+04:00",
    "date_accepted": "2008-07-29T11:00:00+04:00",
    "date_published": "2009-01-27T11:00:00+03:00",
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