Blood culture contamination: results of a performance improvement teamGeddie POncology Nursing Forum
For the cultures plain blood agar was found to be satisfactory and the material for culture was obtained from the nasopharynx by means of a simple uncovered wire swab. It was found that 3-6% of the men examined were meningococcus... M George,RD Herrold - 《Journal of Infectious Diseases...
Blood culture contamination is a common problem in the emergency department (ED) that leads to unnecessary patient morbidity and health care costs. The study objective was to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a quality improvement (QI) intervention for reducing blood culture contamination in ...
Blood collection procedures influence contamination rates in blood culture: a prospective study. Chin Med J (Engl). 2011;124(23):4002-6.Ge Y; Liu XQ; Xu YC;.Blood collection procedures influence contamination rates in blood culture;a prospec rive study.Chin Med J.2011.4002-4006Blood collection...
Reducing blood culture contamination in a community hospital emergency department with a standardized sterile collection techniqueW.H., SelfJ., MicKaninM.C., HendersonG., CorleyC.G., GrijalvaC.D., McNaughtonT.R., TalbotA.B., Storrow
Background: The Children's Hospital and Medical Center (CHMC) in Omaha, NE, embarked on a Performance Improvement Project to standardize its blood culture collection and processing (BCCP) policy and practice in order to reduce contamination rates, improve accuracy of diagnosis and treatment for pa...
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(P0.05),while the alarm time of contaminating bacteria was longer than that of infective bacteria.Conclusion:Staphylococcus false-positive rate in blood culture is relatively high,especially coagulasenegative staphylococci.The blood culture samples should be strictly collected to reduce pollution.In order ...
Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are the most frequent contaminating bacteria; therefore, we aimed to investigate an indicator of CoNS to predict the increase in blood culture contamination rate (ConR). We performed a retrospective study of select
Blood banks and laboratories have employed various methods to detect bacterial contamination of blood components, including use of the automated liquid media culture systems BacT/ALERT 3D (Organon Teknika, Durham, NC, USA) and BACTEC 9240 (Becton Dickinson, MD, USA) [ 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. ...