2013. Blood Culture Contamination in the Emergency Department: A Risk Factor Analysis
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A change of culture: reducing blood culture contamination rates in an Emergency Department
Blood cultures are an important investigation to help tailor effective management for patients with severe sepsis. Frequent contaminated samples increase laboratory workload and can delay or cause incorrect changes to patient management. This can prolong patient hospitalisation, increase the risk of harm and increase cost to health boards. Current guidelines advocate a contamination rate of 2-3...
متن کاملReducing the blood culture contamination rate in a pediatric emergency department and subsequent cost savings.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Blood culture contamination in the pediatric population remains a significant quality and safety issue because false-positive blood cultures lead to unnecessary use of resources and testing. In addition, few studies describe interventions to reduce peripheral blood culture contamination rates in this population. We hypothesized that the introduction of a standardized st...
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Blood culture contamination in the pediatric population remains a significant quality and safety issue because false-positive blood cultures lead to unnecessary use of resources and testing. In addition, few studies describe interventions to reduce peripheral blood culture contamination rates in this population. We hypothesized that the introduction of a standardized s...
متن کاملReducing the Blood Culture Contamination Rate in a Pediatric Emergency Department and Subsequent Cost Savings abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Blood culture contamination in the pediatric population remains a significant quality and safety issue because false-positive blood cultures lead to unnecessary use of resources and testing. In addition, few studies describe interventions to reduce peripheral blood culture contamination rates in this population. We hypothesized that the introduction of a standardized s...
متن کامل[Predictive factors of contamination in a blood culture with bacterial growth in an Emergency Department].
INTRODUCTION The aim of this study is to identify predictive factors of bacterial contamination in positive blood cultures (BC) collected in an emergency department. PATIENTS AND METHODS A prospective, observational and analytical study was conducted on febrile children aged on to 36 months, who had no risk factors of bacterial infection, and had a BC collected in the Emergency Department bet...
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عنوان ژورنال: Open Forum Infectious Diseases
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2328-8957
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1693