I would recommend extensive education/training for all personnel collecting blood cultures. As the microbiology supervisor in a community hospital in NY that had a 10% contamination rate, we used a multidisciplinary approach and brought the rate down to 2% in a year's time.
-----Original Message----- From: Sepsisgroups [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jenny clarke Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2018 12:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Sepsis Groups] Blood cultures false positive Anyone have any help to curb this issue? I have even tried to make it sterile process and still running into issues. Thanks ahead Sent from my iPhone _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org _______________________________________________ Sepsisgroups mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sepsisgroups.org/listinfo.cgi/sepsisgroups-sepsisgroups.org
