The Comparative Accuracy of Pooled vs Individual Blood Culture Sampling Methods for Diagnosis of Catheter-related Bloodstream Infection

14 (28%) patients were diagnosed with CRBSI and 57.9 percent. - The pooled blood sampling method shows sensitivity was 69.23% and 95%CI 0.44 to 0.94 and specificity was 97.3 % and 95%CI of 0.92 to 1. 02. -The area under the ROC curve was 0.83 and 95%CI of 0.68 to 0.99. -A paired T-Test to compare time to positivity of the pooled blood bottle and the first positive culture from the individual bottles indicated statistical significance with a p-value less than 0.001 and 95 percent CI of 0.72 to 0.99.