Applying the neonatal Early-Onset Sepsis calculator in cases of clinical chorioamnionitis at or after 34 weeks of gestation

Carola et al questioned the diagnostic utility and hence the safety of the neonatal Early-Onset Sepsis (EOS) calculator.1 In a retrospectively studied cohort of 1159 infants born to mothers with clinical chorioamnionitis, the calculator would have missed 2 of 5 infants with culture-proven, early-onset sepsis.

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