The proposed project takes a population-based approach to neonatal infection and combines information from a variety of care settings - hospital, outpatient office, and emergency room - in order to delineate the population-based epidemiology of infection in the first month of life. Methods will be developed to link automated hospital records of newborns with their HMO's prenatal and post-discharge records to assess the total occurrence of infection during the neonatal period. There are two important goals to this work. First, the algorithm developed will be generally applicable for use in many health care systems to perform efficient, uniformly interpretable, surveillance for newborn infections. Second, this methodology will be used to study important correlates and causes of infection, with the goal of identifying potentially modifiable factors.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Type
Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (F32)
Project #
5F32AI010169-02
Application #
6137087
Study Section
Epidemiology and Disease Control Subcommittee 2 (EDC)
Program Officer
Morens, David M
Project Start
2000-01-01
Project End
Budget Start
2000-01-01
Budget End
2000-09-30
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2000
Total Cost
$35,725
Indirect Cost
Name
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Department
Type
DUNS #
071723621
City
Boston
State
MA
Country
United States
Zip Code
02115
Sinha, Anushua; Yokoe, Deborah; Platt, Richard (2003) Epidemiology of neonatal infections: experience during and after hospitalization. Pediatr Infect Dis J 22:244-51