Blood Culture Contamination: An Overview for Infection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship Programs Working with the Clinical Laboratory

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). ; National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
• Description:
  Blood culture contamination can compromise quality of care and lead to unnecessary antibiotic exposure and prolonged length of hospitalization. Microbiology laboratories typically track blood culture contamination rates and can provide data to assist in reducing contamination rates. Infection control programs and microbiology laboratories might participate in designing and implementing interventions to decrease contamination rates, and antibiotic stewardship programs could also be engaged to optimize multidisciplinary quality improvement efforts to decrease blood culture contamination and improve the collection of blood culture specimens.
• Subjects:
  Bacteria Blood Blood Culture Blood Specimen Collection Cell Culture Techniques Clinical Laboratory Techniques Diagnostic Errors Equipment Contamination False Positive Reactions Laboratories Program Evaluation Quality Improvement Reagent Kits, Diagnostic

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• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) (CDC)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or Booklet) ; Guideline
• CIO:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID)
• Division:
  Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion (DHQP)
• Topic:
  Other
• Location:
  North America
• Contributor:
  Office of Laboratory Systems and Response. Division of Laboratory Systems
• Resource Number:
  CS 331454-B
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Resources
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d1bdb1524126929cf76b772bbce26a7f985a6ee5cebbae15606e3da49ff2274aa103e1cf03ddd5c1dc73d9eb3b95cbb623f1df91b07ddf5cbf2563023f33631e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/123257/cdc_123257_DS1.pdf
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