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Reducing the Contamination Rate and the Unnecessary Requesting of Blood Culture Test through Quality Improvement Project

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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prevention of hospital infections

Abstract

Background: Blood stream infections are major leading causes of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Increasing the awareness of the clinicians and nurses about the proper protocol of blood culture test is very important in reducing the contamination rate and the unnecessary requesting of blood culture. Objectives: to reduce the contamination rate and the unnecessary requesting of blood culture from different departments through implementation of hospital wide Quality Improvement Project (QIP). Methodology: Blood cultures were tested in the Microbiology Laboratory of Najran Armed Forces hospital, Saudi Arabia, in the period from June 2019 to July 2020 and their results were compared before and after the implementation of the QIP. Results:The comparison between the blood cultures results before and after QIP implementation showed statistically significant (19.6%) reduction in the contamination rate, (14%) reduction in the total number of blood culture requests and (11.6%) reduction in the negative results rate. Conclusion:The reduction in the total number, negative results and contamination rate of blood culture test after QIP implementation were considered as performance indicators that the recommendations of QIP were effective and implemented strictly.

Keywords

Blood Culture, Contamination, Unnecessary request, Quality Improvement Project

Authors

First Name

Tamer

Last Name

Mahmoud

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University

Email

tamermmm2000@yahoo.com

City

Sohag

Orcid

0000-0002-2668-1292

Volume

30

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

28170

Issue Date

2021-01-01

Receive Date

2020-10-30

Publish Date

2021-01-01

Page Start

87

Page End

91

Print ISSN

1110-2179

Online ISSN

2537-0979

Article File

EJMM_Volume 30_Issue 1_Pages 87-91.pdf

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https://ejmm.journals.ekb.eg/article_202185.html

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11

Type

New and original researches in the field of Microbiology.

Type Code

2,038

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Medical Microbiology

Publication Link

https://ejmm.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Reducing the Contamination Rate and the Unnecessary Requesting of Blood Culture Test through Quality Improvement Project

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Article

Created At

23 Jan 2023