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  • Title: Reduction of blood culture contamination rate by an educational intervention.
    Author: Eskira S, Gilad J, Schlaeffer P, Hyam E, Peled N, Karakis I, Riesenberg K, Schlaeffer F, Borer A.
    Journal: Clin Microbiol Infect; 2006 Aug; 12(8):818-21. PubMed ID: 16842584.
    Abstract:
    The efficacy of an educational intervention to prevent blood culture contamination (BCC) in internal medicine was studied in two medical wards in a busy tertiary-care hospital in which blood cultures were obtained by physicians rather than dedicated phlebotomists. Baseline BCC rates were 5.7% and 7.1% in intervention and control wards, respectively (p 0.6), compared with 1.95% and 6.7%, respectively, post-intervention (p < 0.001). Following multivariate analysis, only an absence of intervention was an independent variable associated with BCC. Thus simple educational intervention reduced BCC in internal medicine and was considered to be cost-effective.
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