ArticleJournal of infection prevention2015
The effect of a quality improvement programme reducing blood culture contamination on the detection of bloodstream infection in an emergency department.
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- Development and validation of a bacteremia prediction score for adult emergency department patients using hybrid machine learning and regression.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci Determined as Blood Culture Contamination Have High Virulence Characteristic Including Transfer of Antibiotic Resistance Determinants toInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- A Five-Bundle Intervention to Improve Blood Culture Use in a Tertiary Hospital in Romania.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A Simple Bacteremia Score for Predicting Bacteremia in Patients with Suspected Infection in the Emergency Department: A Cohort Study.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Increased blood culture contamination rate during COVID-19 outbreak in intensive care unit: A brief report from a single-centre.Journal of the Intensive Care Society · 2022Article
- Identification of the main contributors to blood culture contamination at a tertiary care academic medical center.Infection prevention in practice · 2022Article
- Trends in Collection of Microbiological Cultures Across Veterans Affairs Community Living Centers in the United States Over 8 Years.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2020Article
- Achieving best practice in infection prevention: evidence from the real world.Journal of infection prevention · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundContaminated blood cultures (BC) generate avoidable costs and prolong hospital stays. To measure our hospital's performance against the recommended standard of <3% BC contamination, we performed a prospective study.
methodsWe prospectively determined the frequency of contaminated and genuinely positive BC hospital-wide over seven months.
resultsOverall, 73 of 1,829 blood cultures reviewed were contaminated (4.0%). However, distribution of contamination was not uniform. Finding a consistently higher incidence of contamination (11.7%) in our emergency department (ED) than elsewhere in the hospital (2.5%), we adopted a collaborative quality improvement strategy targeted to the ED. A combination of education, modified BC packs and regular feedback of BC results was associated with a significant reduction in contamination (7.4%,
conclusionsUsing a simple and inexpensive collaborative intervention we reduced BC contamination without adversely affecting the detection of genuine BSI.
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