Multicenter Blood Culture Quality Improvement

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Conditions studied: Bacteremia

In brief

False positive blood culture results due to specimen contamination with bacteria inhabiting patients' skin is a common problem in emergency departments (EDs) in the United States. Contaminated blood cultures lead to patient harm through unnecessary hospitalizations and ED visits, delays in surgery, unneeded antibiotics, and unnecessary procedures. The investigators have developed a multifaceted quality improvement improvement bundle (The Blood Culture QI Program) designed to minimize blood culture contamination in the ED. In this study, the investigators will implement the quality improvement bundle in six community hospital EDs and evaluate its effectiveness at reducing contamination.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01413555

Run by

Vanderbilt University

People needed

14889

Starts

2011-08-01

Expected to finish

2013-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-06-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients who have a blood culture ordered for clinical purposes in one of the participating centers during the study period.

You may not qualify if…

• Age < 18 years old

Where it is running

• Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center Emergency Medicine — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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