A change of culture: reducing blood culture contamination rates in an Emergency Department
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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 blood culture contamination in the emergency department: an interrupted time series quality improvement study.
OBJECTIVES Blood culture contamination is a common problem in the emergency department (ED) that leads to unnecessary patient morbidity and health care costs. The study objective was to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a quality improvement (QI) intervention for reducing blood culture contamination in an ED. METHODS The authors developed a QI intervention to reduce blood culture cont...
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...
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 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...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Quality Improvement Reports
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2050-1315
DOI: 10.1136/bmjquality.u206760.w2754