A vancomycin-sparing guideline for suspected late-onset sepsis helped reduce vancomycin usage in our level-4 neonatal intensive care unit. Significant reduction in overall vancomycin use, with its likely unit-wide beneficial downstream effects, may need to be measured against the rare case of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and delayed effective therapy.
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