Clinical education in reducing contamination rate in blood culture collection
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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 collection and to use 2% chlorhexidine as a skin decontaminant.
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