%P 1104-1106 %D 2019 %N 11 %K sepsis, antibiotics, neonates, children %T Global Divergence From World Health Organization Treatment Guidelines for Neonatal and Pediatric Sepsis %V 38 %I Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) %L discovery10080302 %J The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal %A C Jackson %A Y Hsia %A R Basmaci %A J Bielicki %A PT Heath %A A Versporten %A H Goossens %A M Sharland %O This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. %X We used data from 2 global point prevalence surveys of antibiotic prescribing to describe the treatment of sepsis in hospitalized neonates and children. One hundred eighty-five of 824 neonates (22.5%) and 9/786 children (1.1%) received a World Health Organization-recommended first-line treatment; of the remainder, 9/639 neonates (1.4%) and 102/777 children (13.1%) received a World Health Organization-recommended second-line treatment. Reasons for this low adherence to guidance should be explored.