Automated surveillance of hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia: feasibility and epidemiological results from a Dutch multicenter study.

Objective: Hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia (HOB) has been suggested as a suitable and automatable surveillance target to include in surveillance programs, however differences in definitions across studies limit interpretation and large-scale implementation. We aimed to apply an automated surveillance system for HOB in multiple hospitals using a consensus definition, and describe HOB rates.

Design And Setting: Retrospective cohort study in four Dutch hospitals: 1 tertiary hospital and 3 secondary hospitals.