Abstract
The Impact of Intensive Education on Decreasing the Blood Contamination Rate
Highlights
Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is a bacterium which infects humans and can make them ill
We utilized a multidisciplinary team to implement a process for improved cleaning and hand washing with Clostridium difficile (C. diff) patients
We developed a new specific C. diff Contact Isolation sign with emphasis on hand washing and cleaning of the room with bleach
Summary
Blood cultures (BC) are considered the “gold standard” for diagnosis of an infection. A BC growing a “contaminant organism” is considered a false positive BC This impacts on patient care e errors in clinical interpretation, unnecessary antibiotic use, superinfections, emergence of resistant strains and on the length of stay, incidence of catheter-line associated blood stream infections, pharmacy, laboratory costs, and other diagnostic tests. The standard of American Society of Microbiology for Blood Culture Contamination (BCC) rate is 3%. Given these implications, we began trending the BCC rate in 2009. Each unit was notified of the result and microbiology supervisor provided one-on-one inservice sessions. There was a significant reduction in BCC rate from 4.3% in 2009 to 2.4% in 2013 (p
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