The correlation between invasive care procedures and the occurrence of neonatal sepsis/A correlação entre procedimentos assistenciais invasivos e a ocorrência de sepse neonatal

To correlative the invasive care procedures applied to very-low-birth-weight infants with the occurrence of neonatal sepsis. Retrospective, longitudinal cohort study undertaken through the investigation of secondary data between 2008 and 2012. The infants' characteristics were analyzed by means of the Mann-Whitney test (means) and the chi-square test to compare frequencies. All variables with significance of p