Research Article
Economic and Diagnostic Biomarker Tests of Neonatal Sepsis: A Prospective Study from a Tertiary Care Hospital in a Low-Income Country
Table 1
Neonatal demographic characteristics.
| | Patient demographics | Culture confirmed sepsis (%) | Culture negative sepsis (%) | Total (%) | Odds ratio | 95% CI | P value |
| | Gender | | | | | | | | Male | 24 (14) | 84 (49.1) | 108 (63.2) | 1.96 | 0.82-4.68 | 0.15 | | Female | 8 (4.7) | 55 (32.3) | 63 (36.8) | | Delivery type | | Preterm | 17 (9.9) | 13 (7.6) | 30 (17.5) | 10.9 | 4.5-26.9 | <0.001 | | Full-term | 15 (8.8) | 126 (73.7 | 141 (82.5) | | Weight by birth | | Low birth weight | 10 (5.8) | 9 (5.3) | 19 (11.1) | 6.5 | 2.4-17.9 | <0.001 | | Normal birth weight | 22 (12.9) | 130 (76.0) | 152 (88.9) | | Sepsis type suspected | | Early-onset | 9 (5.3) | 57 (33.3) | 66 (38.6) | 0.5 | 0.24-1.3 | 0.22 | | Late-onset | 23 (13.5) | 82 (48) | 105 (61.4) |
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Gestational age in weeks (Preterm): Mean with SD =31.8 ± 3.33; Median with IQR =33(34.7-28.25).
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