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A Prospective Study to Improve Automated Blood Culture Diagnostics in Gram Negative Sepsis by Implementing a "Diagnostic Stewardship Care-Bundle"

2022-04-28 infectious diseases Title + abstract only
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ObjectivesWe implemented a diagnostic stewardship care-bundle (DSB): "Sepsis-48" with the aim of evaluating its impact on changes in duration of key steps in automated blood culture diagnostics (aBCD), compliance to care-bundle and turnaround time (TAT). MethodsIn this prospective study, a care-bundle checklist for automated blood culture bottles (BCBs) received from adult intensive care units (AICUs) was implemented between July 2020-June 2021 (intervention period, P2) and compared with a retr...

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