Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of the early-onset sepsis calculator: a multicenter survey study

LEJ van Veen, BM van der Weijden… - Children, 2023 - mdpi.com
Prior studies demonstrated the neonatal early-onset sepsis (EOS) calculator's potential in
drastically reducing antibiotic prescriptions, and its international adoption is increasing …

Impact of neonatal early-onset sepsis calculator on antibiotic use within two tertiary healthcare centers

S Warren, M Garcia, C Hankins - Journal of Perinatology, 2017 - nature.com
Objective: A recently described neonatal early-onset sepsis (EOS) calculator has the
potential to reduce newborn antibiotic exposure but real world data from its use remains …

Early onset sepsis calculator implementation is associated with reduced healthcare utilization and financial costs in late preterm and term newborns

NB Achten, DH Visser, E Tromp, W Groot… - European journal of …, 2020 - Springer
The neonatal early onset sepsis (EOS) calculator is a novel tool for antibiotic stewardship in
newborns, associated with a reduction of empiric antibiotic treatment for suspected EOS. We …

Sepsis calculator implementation reduces empiric antibiotics for suspected early-onset sepsis

NB Achten, JW Dorigo-Zetsma… - European journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Significant overtreatment with antibiotics for suspected early onset sepsis (EOS) constitutes
a persisting clinical problem, generating unnecessary risks, harms, and costs for many …

The impact of the early onset neonatal sepsis calculator on antibiotic initiation: a single center study in Israel

M Levi, R Melamed, E Shany, K Marks… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
To evaluate the effect of implementation of the Kaiser Permanente (KP) early onset sepsis
(EOS) calculator in infants born at 34 week's gestation or more on antibiotic utilization and …

Evaluating safety and effectiveness of the early-onset sepsis calculator to reduce antibiotic exposure in Dutch at-risk newborns: A protocol for a cluster randomised …

BM van der Weijden, MC van der Weide, FB Plötz… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Introduction Newborns are at risk for early-onset sepsis (EOS). In the Netherlands, EOS
affects less than 0.2% of newborns, but approximately 5% are treated with empirical …

Association of use of the neonatal early-onset sepsis calculator with reduction in antibiotic therapy and safety: a systematic review and meta-analysis

NB Achten, C Klingenberg, WE Benitz… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The neonatal early-onset sepsis (EOS) calculator is a clinical risk stratification
tool increasingly used to guide the use of empirical antibiotics for newborns. Evidence on …

[HTML][HTML] Neonatal early‐onset sepsis calculator recommended significantly less empiric antibiotic treatment than national guidelines

BM van der Weijden, NB Achten, J Bekhof… - … (Oslo, Norway: 1992), 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Suspected early-onset sepsis (EOS) remains a significant challenge for clinicians and often
requires a balance between efficient sepsis care and antimicrobial stewardship. Low EOS …

Early-onset sepsis risk calculator integration into an electronic health record in the nursery

CH Stipelman, ER Smith, M Diaz-Ochu… - …, 2019 - publications.aap.org
METHODS: This 2-phase intervention included programming (1) an EHR form containing
calculator fields that were external to the infant's admission note, with nonautomatic access …

Development and implementation of an early-onset sepsis calculator to guide antibiotic management in late preterm and term neonates

MW Kuzniewicz, EM Walsh, S Li… - … journal on quality …, 2016 - jointcommissionjournal.com
Volume 42 Number 5 May 2016 233 developed by our research team for use in an
integrated health care delivery system. In this article, we describe the strategy and the tools …