A Quality Improvement Initiative: Reducing Blood Culture Contamination in a Children's Hospital

Blood culture contamination is a safety and quality concern in children's hospitals; it leads to increased unnecessary testing, admissions, antibiotic exposure, and cost. The standard benchmark for blood culture contamination is 3%. Our aim with the quality improvement project was to reduce the...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Pediatrics (Evanston) 2018-10, Vol.142 (4), p.e20180244
Hauptverfasser:	El Feghaly, Rana E, Chatterjee, Jahnavi, Dowdy, Kristin, Stempak, Lisa M, Morgan, Stephanie, Needham, William, Prystupa, Kesha, Kennedy, Marie
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Antibiotics Blood Blood culture Blood Culture - methods Blood Culture - standards Blood Specimen Collection - methods Blood Specimen Collection - standards Blood volume Check lists Child care Children Children's hospitals Contamination Education Electronic medical records Health Personnel - standards Hospitals, Pediatric - standards Humans Medical electronics Medical personnel Nurses Pediatrics Phlebotomy - methods Phlebotomy - standards Practice Quality control Quality improvement Quality Improvement - standards Quality management Quality of care Safety and security measures Teaching methods
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Zusammenfassung:	Blood culture contamination is a safety and quality concern in children's hospitals; it leads to increased unnecessary testing, admissions, antibiotic exposure, and cost. The standard benchmark for blood culture contamination is 3%. Our aim with the quality improvement project was to reduce the contamination rate at our children's hospital from a mean of 2.85% to
ISSN:	0031-4005 1098-4275
DOI:	10.1542/peds.2018-0244