Reducing Blood Culture Contamination Rates: Experiences of Four Hospital Systems

INTRODUCTION: Blood cultures (BCs) frequently become contaminated during the pre-analytic phase of collection leading to downstream ramifications. We present a summary of performance improvement (PI) interventions provided by four hospital systems and common factors that contributed to decreased blo...

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Autores principales: Halstead, Diane C., Sautter, Robert L., Snyder, James W., Crist, Arthur E., Nachamkin, Irving
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Healthcare 2020
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7237585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32350778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40121-020-00299-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7237585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32350778
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40121-020-00299-1

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