ArticleInfection prevention in practice2024
Rapid implementation of a clinical decision-support workflow during the national blood culture bottle shortage.
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- Diagnostic disruption during a blood culture bottle shortage: clinical and laboratory adaptation strategies.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Observational
- Blood culture utilization and impact of stewardship practices during a national blood culture bottle shortage at a cancer center.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2026Article
- Rapid Diagnostic Stewardship and Blood Culture Use in a Pediatric Medical Center.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The Impact of a Nationwide Blood Culture Bottle Shortage in 2024 on Healthcare Facilities in the United States.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025Article
- Efficacy of a Multicenter Hospital Network's Approach to Enacting Blood Culture Stewardship During a Global Shortage.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: The United States Food and Drug Administration recently announced a national blood culture (BC) bottle shortage; the exact date of restoration is still being determined. Aim: Implement a workflow to mitigate the BC bottle shortage at our hospital. Methods: We created the following clinical decision support workflow in electronic medical record to help mitigate BC bottle use: (a) limit to two BC in 24 hours, (b) only repeat BC if 72 hours have passed from the prior sets, (c) do not repeat BC for coagulase-negative Findings: Post implementation, our weekly average BC bottle use decreased to 29.5%. Conclusion: Within three weeks of the BC bottle shortage announcement, we successfully deployed evidence-based BC restrictions in the electronic medical record (EMR), reducing our BC orders by 29.5%. We encourage others to consider and potentially replicate our workflow to contribute to diagnostic stewardship.
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