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  • Title: Reducing blood culture contamination rates: a systematic approach to improving quality of care.
    Author: Hopkins K, Huynh S, McNary C, Walker A, Nixon R, Craighead JE.
    Journal: Am J Infect Control; 2013 Dec; 41(12):1272-4. PubMed ID: 23747025.
    Abstract:
    Contaminated blood cultures can have a deleterious effect on patient care; they may lead to longer hospital stays, unnecessary antibiotic therapy, needless removal of central lines, and redundant laboratory testing. A multidisciplinary quality improvement team from a western US health care system used an evidence-based process to define a system for obtaining blood culture specimens that subsequently decreased contamination rates from 3.7% to 1.7% with an estimated savings close to 2 million dollars in 2 years.
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