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PERSPECTIVE article

Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.

Sec. Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volume 15 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2025.1563940

This article is part of the Research Topic Advancing Understanding of Neonatal Bacterial Infections View all 6 articles

Investigating Antibiotics in the NICU and Patient Safety

Provisionally accepted
  • 1 The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
  • 2 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States
  • 3 University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States
  • 4 University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States

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    Keywords: Neonatal infection, Antibiotic utilization, Parental Consent, RedBook guidelines, Antimicrobial stewardhip, Patient safety - standards, Study design and best practice

    Received: 20 Jan 2025; Accepted: 19 Mar 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Lawrence, Wynn, Kimberlin and Cantey. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Shelley M. Lawrence, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States

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