3. Neonatal infection: if the baby had one or more of the following: probable sepsis; probable meningitis; or probable pneumonia.
This will be considered present if the baby has
clinical signs/symptoms (respiratory distress, irritability,
temperature instability, feeding difficulties, early onset jaundice,
poor perfusion, hypotension, apnoea, seizures, tachycardia,
lethargy), and either an abnormal sepsis screen or abnormal
cerebrospinal fluid finding.
Poorly defined outcomes were included for information purposes
only.