Neonatal sepsis registry: Time to antibiotic dataset

Svetlana Ostapenko; Melissa Schmatz; Lakshmi Srinivasan; Okan U Elci; Scott L Weiss; Aaron J Masino; Marissa Tremoglie; Mary Catherine Harris; Robert W Grundmeier

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2019.104788

Neonatal sepsis registry: Time to antibiotic dataset

Data Brief. 2019 Nov 11:27:104788. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2019.104788. eCollection 2019 Dec.

Authors

Svetlana Ostapenko¹, Melissa Schmatz², Lakshmi Srinivasan^{2

3}, Okan U Elci^{4

5}, Scott L Weiss⁶, Aaron J Masino^{1

6}, Marissa Tremoglie², Mary Catherine Harris^{2

3}, Robert W Grundmeier^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biomedical & Health Informatics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
² Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁴ The Biostatistics and Data Management Core, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
⁵ Westat, Rockville, MD, USA.
⁶ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Abstract

This article describes the process of extracting electronic health record (EHR) data into a format that supports analyses related to the timeliness of antibiotic administration. The de-identified data that accompanies this article were collected from a cohort of infants who were evaluated for possible sepsis in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The interpretation of findings from these data are reported in a separate manuscript [1]. For purposes of illustration for interested readers, scripts written in the R programming language related to the creation and use of the dataset have also been provided. Interested researchers are encouraged to contact the research team to discuss opportunities for collaboration.

Keywords: Anti-bacterial agents; Infant mortality; Neonatal sepsis; Quality improvement; Registries.