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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