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Implementing a quality improvement plan to reduce the blood culture contamination rate in pediatric patients: A quasi-experimental study.

Abstract
Background: Blood culture contamination is a safety and quality indicator in the pediatric population. False positive blood culture negatively impacts pediatric patients' proper management, microbiology laboratories, healthcare facilities where blood cultures are ordered, and pharmacies. The study aims to appraise the blood culture contamination rate in an intensive care unit of an emergency depar...
Keywords
Contamination
Plan (archaeology)
Quality (philosophy)
Blood culture
Medicine
History
Biology
Microbiology
Ecology
Philosophy
Archaeology
Epistemology
Antibiotics
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Zero hunger



Implementing a quality improvement plan to reduce the blood culture contamination rate in pediatric patients: A quasi-experimental study.

Implementing a quality improvement plan to reduce the blood culture contamination rate in pediatric patients: A quasi-experimental study.

Abstract
Background: Blood culture contamination is a safety and quality indicator in the pediatric population. False positive blood culture negatively impacts pediatric patients' proper management, microbiology laboratories, healthcare facilities where blood cultures are ordered, and pharmacies. The study aims to appraise the blood culture contamination rate in an intensive care unit of an emergency depar...
Keywords
Contamination
Plan (archaeology)
Quality (philosophy)
Blood culture
Medicine
History
Biology
Microbiology
Ecology
Philosophy
Archaeology
Epistemology
Antibiotics
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Zero hunger