Reduced Blood Culture Use in High-Volume Lung Transplant MICU Following a Stewardship Program, Northern California, 2021-2023

• Main Authors: Guillermo Rodriguez Nava (Author), Javier Lorenzo (Author), Mindy Sampson (Author), Valeria Fabre (Author), Sara Cosgrove (Author), Jorge Salinas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: There is a need to optimize blood culture (BC) utilization among hospitalized adults. A previous study showed an evidence-based BC algorithm improved BC utilization in a medical intensive care unit (MICU) at a large academic center. Our aim is to evaluate the impact of an intervention...