Lessons learned from a hospital-wide review of blood stream infections for paediatric central line-associated blood stream infection prevention.

Aim: Bacteraemia episodes were assessed to calculate a hospital-wide central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI) rate per 1000 catheter-days. Secondary objectives were to describe risk factors, microbiology and outcomes of children with CLABSI.

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted at an Australian tertiary paediatric hospital in children <18 years who had blood culture sampling during the 2-year period, 2014-2015.

Stool culture.

Stool culture is a laboratory test used to determine the aetiology of infective, bacterial diarrhoea. It refers to the inoculation of selective agar plates with faeces and incubation for 1-2 days to detect the presence of pathogenic bacteria within the bowel flora.