Table 1.
Hospitalizations for neonatal sepsis by geographic region during the study period according to year of birth.
| Year | LB | Hospitalizations due to sepsis | Hospitalizations due to sepsis by region |
% of LB hospitalized due to sepsis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MW | NE | N | SE | S | ||||
| 2008 | 2,934,828 | 3042 | 145 | 405 | 156 | 1353 | 983 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 2,881,581 | 3243 | 84 | 406 | 226 | 1573 | 954 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 2,861,868 | 3810 | 103 | 445 | 303 | 1981 | 978 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 2,913,160 | 3902 | 115 | 575 | 305 | 2017 | 890 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 2,905,789 | 4200 | 131 | 774 | 260 | 2115 | 920 | 0.14 |
| 2013 | 2,904,027 | 4245 | 122 | 938 | 232 | 2041 | 912 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 2,979,259 | 4347 | 155 | 1155 | 173 | 1964 | 900 | 0.15 |
| 2015 | 3,017,668 | 5006 | 131 | 1365 | 308 | 2107 | 1095 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 2,857,800 | 5172 | 206 | 1228 | 379 | 2292 | 1067 | 0.18 |
| 2017 | 2,923,535 | 5083 | 177 | 1237 | 318 | 2342 | 1009 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 2,943,130 | 5504 | 300 | 1255 | 343 | 2445 | 1161 | 0.19 |
| Total | 32,122,645 | 47,554 | 1,669 | 9783 | 3003 | 22,230 | 10,869 | 0.15 |
MW, Midwest; NE, Northeast; N, North; SE, Southeast; S, South; LB, Live Births.