DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE PERINATAL AND NEONATAL PREDICTIION MODEL FOR EARLY ONSET SEPSIS IN PRETERM NEONATES BORN LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO 34 WEEKS OF GESTATION – A PROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY

•       Most of the currently available early onset sepsis risk calculators are based on perinatal risk factors and are derived from the data collected in developed countries, which has altogether different organism profile (gram positive>> gram negative in former), clinical course, and outcome than developing countries  and risk factor based approach  leads to unnecessary exposure of antibiotics during the 1st week of life among asymptomatic neonates. Hence this  prospective cohort study is  aimed to develop comprehensive perinatal risk factor and neonatal clinical parameter based prediction model for early onset neonatal sepsis for babies born ≤ 34 weeks of gestation in developing country like India.