Laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection - A recognized pathogen cultured from blood cultures, and - Organism cultured from blood unrelated to an infection at another site | |
Clinical and common skin contaminant bloodstream infection - Fever (> 38 °C, rectal), hypothermia (< 37 °C, rectal), apnea, or bradycardia, and - Signs and symptoms and positive laboratory results were unrelated to an infection at another site, and - Common skin contaminant was cultured from two or more blood | |
Clinical bloodstream infection - Fever (> 38 °C, rectal), hypothermia (< 37 °C, rectal), apnea, or bradycardia without evidence of blood culture, and - Unrelated infection at another site, and - Diagnosed sepsis by a clinician of HVH and confirmed CR-BSI after a consultation between clinicians and infection control specialists |