Evidence based neonatal infections is expertly written by david isaacs an experienced author renowned for his knowledge in both pediatric infections and evidence based medicine it critically analyses the evidence for decision making in neonatal infections. Evidence based neonatal infections was a labor of love entirely written by dr isaacs his authorship leads to consistency of format and of writing style that are welcomed when compared to the unevenness in many multiauthored texts a disadvantage is that none of the pictures many of which are of skin findings are in color. Hygiene new york ny kformerly center for evidence based practice university of pennsylvania health system recommendations for prevention and control of infections in neonatal intensive care unit patients staphylococcus aureus september 2020 page 5 of 29 populations 12 16 this literature search did not retrieve data suggesting harm from use of contact precautions in nicu . Evidence based neonatal infections first edition david isaacs 2014 john wiley sons ltd published 2014 by john wiley sons ltdc 1 evidence based neonatal infections figure 11 the cochrane library home page 2013 ci 020 075 the treatment reduces the risk of dying by 50 and 95 of the time it will reduce the risk by somewhere between 20 and 75 negative predictive value