Guideline · Consensus statement
Sustainable Neonatal CLABSI Surveillance: Consensus Toward New Criteria in the Netherlands
- Infection
- Infection prevention
- Late-onset sepsis
- Line and device care
- Medical
- Nursing
- Quality improvement
Summary
This conference abstract reports a modified Delphi consensus by the Working Group on Neonatal Infectious Diseases of the Dutch Paediatric Society to agree nationwide neonatal CLABSI surveillance criteria for Dutch NICUs. The criteria define neonatal CLABSI as a laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection occurring beyond 72 hours after birth in an infant with an indwelling central venous or arterial line, not related to infection at another site. Pathogen identification, or commensal growth with clinical sepsis plus either a second culture or a raised CRP, are specified. The aim is standardised surveillance to enable benchmarking and quality improvement, compatible with a single blood-culture policy.
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