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Clinical education in reducing contamination rate in blood culture collection
Introduction / objectives At the Institute, blood cultures are drawn by doctors. Since 2009, more than 5% of blood cultures grew organisms as contaminant and was a concern to the Infection Control Committee. Our target is to reduce to 3% to meet the standard set by the American Society of Microbiology. The objectives of the clinical education are to enforce best practices in blood culture colle...
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Blood culture contamination represents an ongoing source of frustration for clinicians and microbiologists alike. Ambiguous culture results often lead to diagnostic uncertainty in clinical management and are associated with increased health care costs due to unnecessary treatment and testing. A variety of strategies have been investigated and employed to decrease contamination rates. In additio...
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BACKGROUND False-positive blood cultures findings may lead to a falsely increased morbidity and increased hospital costs. METHOD The survey was conducted as retrospective - prospective study and included 239 preterm infants (born before 37 weeks of gestation) who were treated in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Institute for Child and Youth Health Care of Vojvodina during one year (Janu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1943-7722,0002-9173
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/142.suppl1.162