Reducing the Rate of Blood Culture Contamination in the Emergency Department of a University Teaching Hospital

Reducing the Rate of Blood Culture Contamination in the Emergency Department of a University Teaching Hospital

Objective: Blood culture is an important laboratory test to determine bacteremia in Fungemia in patient's blood. Frequent blood culture contamination (BCC) leads to unnecessary treatment, waste of laboratory resources, and false-positive blood culture. The College of American Pathologist Accred...

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Main Authors: Salma Alshamrani, Khaled Al-Surimi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Innovative Healthcare Institute 2018-08-01
Series:Global Journal on Quality and Safety in Healthcare
Subjects:
blood culture
clinical guidelines
college of american pathologist
emergency department
Online Access:https://jqsh.org/doi/pdf/10.4103/JQSH.JQSH_5_18

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https://jqsh.org/doi/pdf/10.4103/JQSH.JQSH_5_18

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