Reduction of blood culture contamination rates after implementation of a phlebotomist team

Am J Infect Control. 2017 Jun 1;45(6):698-699. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.02.028. Epub 2017 Mar 27.

Authors

Giovanni Fernandes Foggiato¹, Felipe F Tuon², Guilherme Becker³, Alan Homero Dos Santos¹, Bruno Romero Pereira¹, Geovanna Labres de Souza¹, Luana Medeiros Limberger¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil.
² School of Medicine, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil; Division of Infectious Diseases, Hospital de Clínicas da UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil. Electronic address: tuon@ufpr.br.
³ Hospital Santa Casa de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil.

PMID: 28359613
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.02.028

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Blood Culture*
Blood Specimen Collection*
Drug Contamination