Increasing the volume of blood received in adult paired blood culture bottles at a regional public health laboratory: results of a quality improvement project to optimise the diagnosis of bacteraemia

Background: Optimising the diagnosis of bacteraemia has clinical, infection control and antimicrobial stewardship benefits. It's well documented that volume of blood received in blood culture bottles affects test sensitivity. The ability of blood cultures to detect bacteraemia is proportional t...

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Main Authors: Edmund Birkhamshaw (Author), Gemma Winzor (Author)
Format: Book
Published: Elsevier, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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