Footnotes

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

• Data sharing statement A spreadsheet of data collection exists and is available to the authors only. This includes records of CRP measurements and blood culture results for cases of suspected neonatal sepsis at the local hospital.