Actual Clinical Practice Related to Contaminated Blood Cultures May Limit the Cost Savings Associated with Interventions To Reduce Contamination Rates

Autor:	A. George Smulian, Margaret V. Powers-Fletcher, David Terrero Salcedo, Eleanor A. Powell
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	0301 basic medicine Microbiology (medical) 030106 microbiology Psychological intervention 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Phlebotomy Cost Savings Environmental health Health care medicine Humans Blood culture 030212 general & internal medicine Limit (mathematics) Letter to the Editor health care economics and organizations Blood Specimen Collection medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Emergency department Contamination Cost savings Clinical Practice Blood Culture business Emergency Service Hospital
Zdroj:	J Clin Microbiol
ISSN:	1098-660X
Popis:	Blood culture (BC) contamination is a long-standing health care concern ([1][1], [2][2]). Using specialized collection equipment reduces contamination rates ([3][3], [4][4]), but it can increase the cost of blood culture collection. These increased costs are reported to be offset by the savings
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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