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).