Tackling the problem of blood culture contamination in the intensive care unit using an educational intervention

Y.M. Alahmadi; J.C. McElnay; M.P. Kearney; M.A. Aldeyab; F.A. Magee; J. Hanley; R. Bailie; W. Donaldson; K. Johnston; S. Kinoulty; A Doherty; A. Tate; M.G. Scott

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Tackling the problem of blood culture contamination in the intensive care unit using an educational intervention

Y.M. Alahmadi, J.C. McElnay, M.P. Kearney, M.A. Aldeyab, F.A. Magee, J. Hanley, R. Bailie, W. Donaldson, K. Johnston, S. Kinoulty, A Doherty, A. Tate, M.G. Scott

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Blood culture contamination (BCC) has been associated with unnecessary antibiotic use, additional laboratory tests and increased length of hospital stay thus incurring significant extra hospital costs. We set out to assess the impact of a staff educational intervention programme on decreasing intensive care unit (ICU) BCC rates to

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1964-1971
Number of pages	8
Journal	Epidemiology and Infection
Volume	143
Issue number	9
Early online date	12 Nov 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268814003008
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 2015

Keywords

Adequate clinical practice
blood culture
educational intervention
false positives
antibiotic agent
Article
clinical practice
controlled study
cost control
drug use
education program
health care
hospital cost
hospitalization
human
intensive care unit
laboratory diagnosis
laboratory test
length of stay
microbial contamination
outcome assessment
regression analysis
staff training
blood
blood examination
blood sampling
clinical competence
education
health care personnel
microbiology
prospective study
retrospective study
standards
United Kingdom
Blood
Blood Specimen Collection
Clinical Competence
False Positive Reactions
Health Personnel
Hematologic Tests
Humans
Northern Ireland
Prospective Studies
Retrospective Studies

UN SDGs

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Alahmadi, Y. M., McElnay, J. C., Kearney, M. P., Aldeyab, M. A., Magee, F. A., Hanley, J., Bailie, R., Donaldson, W., Johnston, K., Kinoulty, S., Doherty, A., Tate, A., & Scott, M. G. (2015). Tackling the problem of blood culture contamination in the intensive care unit using an educational intervention. Epidemiology and Infection, 143(9), 1964-1971. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268814003008

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