Linking surveillance and clinical data for evaluating trends in bloodstream infection rates in neonatal units in England

Caroline Fraser, Berit Muller-Pebody, Ruth Blackburn, Jim Gray, Sam J Oddie, Ruth E Gilbert and Katie Harron

PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, issue 12, 1-15

Abstract: Objective: To evaluate variation in trends in bloodstream infection (BSI) rates in neonatal units (NNUs) in England according to the data sources and linkage methods used. Methods: We used deterministic and probabilistic methods to link clinical records from 112 NNUs in the National Neonatal Research Database (NNRD) to national laboratory infection surveillance data from Public Health England. We calculated the proportion of babies in NNRD (aged

Date: 2019
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