Guideline · Consensus statement
Sustainable neonatal CLABSI surveillance: consensus towards new criteria in the Netherlands.
- Families and professional practice
- Infection
- Infection prevention
- Late-onset sepsis
- Line and device care
- Medical
- Nursing
- Quality improvement
Summary
Describes a modified Delphi consensus procedure by an expert panel from the Working Group on Neonatal Infectious Diseases of the Dutch Paediatric Society to develop nationwide neonatal CLABSI surveillance criteria for the Netherlands. The criteria define neonatal CLABSI as a laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection occurring more than 72 hours after birth in an infant with an indwelling central venous or arterial line, not related to infection at another site. They distinguish recognised pathogens from common commensals, using clinical sepsis signs with paired cultures or a single culture with raised CRP, and are designed to fit single blood culture practice. The aim is standardised surveillance enabling benchmarking and quality improvement in infection prevention.
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