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- Title
Reduction of blood culture contamination rate by an educational intervention.
- Authors
Eskira, S; Gilad, J; Schlaeffer, P; Hyam, E; Peled, N; Karakis, I; Riesenberg, K; Schlaeffer, F; Borer, A
- Abstract
The efficacy of an educational intervention to prevent blood culture contamination (BCC) in internal medicine was studied in two medical wards in a busy tertiary-care hospital in which blood cultures were obtained by physicians rather than dedicated phlebotomists. Baseline BCC rates were 5.7% and 7.1% in intervention and control wards, respectively (p 0.6), compared with 1.95% and 6.7%, respectively, post-intervention (p < 0.001). Following multivariate analysis, only an absence of intervention was an independent variable associated with BCC. Thus simple educational intervention reduced BCC in internal medicine and was considered to be cost-effective.
- Publication
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 2006, Vol 12, Issue 8, p818
- ISSN
1198-743X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01446.x