| Autor: |
Brianna Sacchetti, Justin Travis, Lisa L. Steed, Ginny Webb |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Microbiology Spectrum, Vol 10, Iss 2 (2022) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
2165-0497 |
| DOI: |
10.1128/spectrum.00277-22 |
| Popis: |
ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has changed health care, from increased needs of personal protective equipment (PPE) to overloaded staff and influxes of patients. Blood cultures are frequently used to detect bloodstream infections in critically ill patients, but it is unknown whether the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on blood culture contamination rates. A total of 88,332 blood cultures taken over a 33-month period were analyzed to compare blood culture contamination rates before the COVID-19 pandemic to rates during the pandemic. A significant increase in the average number of monthly nurse-drawn and peripherally collected cultures occurred after the start of the pandemic, but there was a decrease in the average number of phlebotomy cultures. A significant increase in contamination rates (P |
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