Problem: Contamination of blood cultures is a common problem. False-positive blood culture results may lead to errors in clinical interpretation; administration of inappropriate antibiotics; increased length of hospital stays and increased costs. Significance: Blood culture contamination rates were ...
Blood culture contamination in a neonatal intensive care unit in Shiraz, Southwest-Central Iran. sepsis from blood culture contamination in newborn hospitalized patients in a neonatal intensive care unit and to recognize the most commonly isolated bacteria... Z Hashemizadeh,A Bazargani,MA Davarpanah...
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...
Comparing two blood culture systems for the detection of bacterial contamination in platelet concentratesBACKGROUND The transfusion of platelet concentrates (PCs) contaminated with bacteria may cause serious, and even fatal, septic reactions in patients. The aim of this study was to compare the Versa...
The secondary objective was to showcase an example of blood culture implementation in such a setting, including monitoring of blood culture quality indicators such as contamination rate and volume of blood sampled. This project was carried out by the Centre National Hospitalier Universitaire Hubert ...
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 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 ...
Peer-to-peer monitoring and feedback 6) A dash board for real-time communication of results 7) Remedial procedure demonstration following each contamination The major outcome measure of this project was to reduce the rate of blood culture contamination (BCC) below the target of 3% of specimens ...
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
There are a number of automated blood culture systems with sophisticated computerized algorithms. The complex software allows for frequent monitoring of growth throughout the day and rapid interpretation of culture findings. With these systems as soon as a positive culture is detected, usually within ...