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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is finalising the clinical practice guideline on antibiotics use for early-onset neonatal infection.1 The draft guideline compliments the national Antibiotic Stewardship Programme– Start Smart – then Focus2 by promoting stopping antibiotics at 36 h in infants without signs of infection and negative blood culture results, and switching from the recommended empiric broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment to a narrower-spectrum antibiotic regimen in consultation with microbiologists in those patients with infection.
Prudent antibiotic prescribing …
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Competing interests PH was part of the NICE guideline development group for the draft guideline on antibiotics for early-onset infection. MS and AJ are members of the Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI). There are no competing interests for the other authors.
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