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Tackling the problem of blood culture contamination in the intensive care unit using an educational intervention.
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- The Effect of a Care Bundle on the Rate of Blood Culture Contamination in a General Intensive Care Unit.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- A multi-pronged approach to improve blood culture diagnostics in different clinical departments: a single-centre experience.Infection · 2024Article
- Reducing Blood Culture Contamination Rates: Introduction of a Combined Education and Skin Antisepsis Intervention.Access microbiology · 2024Article
- Improving Blood Culture Quality with a Medical Staff Educational Program: A Prospective Cohort Study.Infection and drug resistance · 2023Article
- Antibiotic Resistance Pattern in Intensive Care Units in a Large Referral Hospital in Iran.Iranian journal of pathology · 2023Article
- Identification of the main contributors to blood culture contamination at a tertiary care academic medical center.Infection prevention in practice · 2022Article
- Blood culture contamination rates at different level healthcare institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa.Southern African journal of infectious diseases · 2020Article
- Evaluation of blood culture epidemiology and efficiency in a large European teaching hospital.PloS one · 2019Observational
- A Sterile Collection Bundle Intervention Reduces the Recovery of Bacteria from Neonatal Blood Culture.Biomedicine hubArticle
- A Quality Improvement Initiative to Reduce Blood Culture Contamination in the Neonatal Unit.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
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Abstract
Blood culture contamination (BCC) has been associated with unnecessary antibiotic use, additional laboratory tests and increased length of hospital stay thus incurring significant extra hospital costs. We set out to assess the impact of a staff educational intervention programme on decreasing intensive care unit (ICU) BCC rates to <3% (American Society for Microbiology standard). BCC rates during the pre-intervention period (January 2006-May 2011) were compared with the intervention period (June 2011-December 2012) using run chart and regression analysis. Monthly ICU BCC rates during the intervention period were reduced to a mean of 3.7%, compared to 9.5% during the baseline period (P < 0.001) with an estimated potential annual cost savings of about £250,100. The approach used was simple in design, flexible in delivery and efficient in outcomes, and may encourage its translation into clinical practice in different healthcare settings.
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