Study characteristics.

NOTE. T/NT/Port, Tunneled/Non-tunneled/Port catheters; HPN, home parenteral nutrition; RCT, randomized controlled trial; T, taurolidine; C, citrate; H, heparin; Symptom, clinical signs and symptoms; Culture, positive blood culture; Source, no other source of infection; Both positive, a positive blood culture from the central venous catheter and peripheral vein for the same organism; time difference, growth of microbes from a blood sample drawn from a catheter at least 2 h before blood sample of a peripheral vein; NA: not available.