Table 3.

Consensus recommendations on blood culture practices in symptomatic immunocompromised critically ill children, WITH or WITHOUT a central venous catheter

Recommendation		% In Agreement with recommendation*
18	After repeated negative-to-date blood cultures, avoid additional blood cultures in immunocompromised patients with PERSISTENT fever, but without signs of sepsis or infection, in whom you do not plan to change/broaden the current antimicrobial regimen.	89% (24/27)
19	For PERSISTENT fever in immunocompromised patients without signs of sepsis, if initial set of blood cultures from all lumens of central venous catheters were negative, avoid repeatedly culturing more than one lumen of that central venous catheter.	85% (23/27)

^*Denominator varies slightly due to unanswered items on a small number of surveys analyzed, with a possible total of 29 responses