Risk of blood culture contamination – Full Text
“We identified patient-specific factors that increase the odds of false-positive blood cultures” Liaquat et al (2022).
Contaminated blood culture impact
“For this edition of Bending the Value Curve, we present a case that highlights the downstream effects of a contaminated blood culture result in a febrile infant and consider opportunities for alternative, value-based approaches” Butala et al (2022).
Blood culture procedure – Full Text
“The findings of this study suggest that the multistep process of blood culturing is not managed comprehensively in Israel, leading to poor clinical practices and delayed results” Temkin et al (2022).
Blood culture diagnostic stewardship
“Multidisciplinary diagnostic stewardship interventions can reduce blood culture and antibiotic use in the PICU. Future work will determine optimal strategies for wider-scale dissemination of diagnostic stewardship in this setting while monitoring patient safety and balancing measures” Woods-Hill et al (2022).
Blood culture results – is it bacteremia or contamination – Full Text
“Distinguishing between MDR-positive BCs representing clinically significant bacteremia or simple contamination requires a careful clinical, biological, and microbiological confrontation of each MDR positive BC in order to avoid unnecessary overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics and thus reduce resistance selective pressure” Nachate et al (2022).
Standardisation of equine blood cultures – Full Text
“To standardise and optimise blood culture techniques in horses and foals, future research in this area should be aimed at determining the optimal volume of blood that should be collected for culture, and the ideal site, timing, and frequency of sample collection” Giancola and Hart (2022).
Reducing blood culture contamination in the ED – Full Text
“To determine whether blood culture contamination (BCC) rates could be decreased in the ED by an educational programme” McNab et al (2022).
Blood culture contamination rate as a quality indicator – Full Text
“Contamination occurred mainly due to improper disinfection of the skin and environmental contamination” Gunvanti et al (2022).
Blood culture utilization practices – Full Text
“Predictors associated with the decision of blood culture ordering among hospitalized patients with abnormal body temperature are still underexplored, particularly non-clinical factors” Foong et al (2022).
New national Swedish blood culture recommendations
“New national recommendations recommend collection of four blood culture bottles from the same venipuncture as the routine blood culture method in Sweden” Özenci et al (2022).
Blood culture incubation system review – Full Text
“We report the first clinical diagnostic study of this scale in a “real-world” setting with a crossover design, comparing two automatic blood culture incubators using samples from patients with a suspected diagnosis of bacteremia/sepsis, as opposed to spiked vials” Halperin et al (2022).
Follow-up blood culture in Gram-negative bacteraemia
“The practice of FU-BCs in patients with GN-BSI should be individualised balancing cost/benefit ratio” Giannella et al (2022).
Blood culture contamination rates during COVID-19 – Full Text
“A positive correlation was found between blood culture contamination rates and COVID-19 incidence rates” Sacchetti et al (2022).
Blood culture contamination prevention – Full Text
“Our results were used to make recommendations for decreasing the rate of blood culture contamination in this institution, which includes acknowledgement of an overwhelmed staff and mandatory periodic training on acceptable aseptic technique and contamination awareness” Sacchetti et al (2022).
Blood culture collection timing
“A simple CDS alert increased timely blood culture collections in ED patients for whom concern for infection was high enough to warrant IV antibiotics” Dutta et al (2022).