Aims
The aims of this study were: to identify the proportion of healthy term newborns evaluated for suspected sepsis; to determine the proportion with definite (microbiologically confirmed) or clinical sepsis; to determine if the investigations and treatments undertaken were appropriate and to inform local guidelines for the management of suspected sepsis in term newborns. In this paper we include both early and late onset sepsis, as although there are different risk factors leading to the sepsis, our aim relates to the clinical setting e what occurs in clinical practice in the presence of factors leading to an investigation of suspected sepsis.