Introduction

Dataset consisting of three .csv files generated from observational and retrospective data analysis for the manuscript titled:   Simulation to optimize the laboratory diagnosis of bacteremia, by Gerada et al. Dataset consists of event time-stamps for blood cultures. All identifiers have been stripped. 

Dataset summary

• observational_data.csv – time-stamps generated from direct observation of blood culture processing. Note that data is in wide format, so that column names contain the event name. Also, events are not related to a particular specimen, therefore, column lengths are not equal. 
• retrospecitve_audit.csv – time-stamps generated from manualk retrospective audit of laboratory information system. Column `Lab` indicates the incubator. Rows are per specimen. 
• retrospective_data.csv – time-stamps pulled automatically from laboratory information system (without manual curation). Rows are per specimen.