Reducing Blood Culture Contaminations in the Emergency Department: It Takes a Team

Clinical and economic impact of contaminated blood cultures within the hospital setting

Yaser M. Alahmadi, Mamoon A. Aldeyab, James C. McElnay et al. · Journal of Hospital Infection · 2011 · 224 citations

Pharmacy, Infectious Diseases, Pharmacoeconomics +16

Reducing the Blood Culture Contamination Rate in a Pediatric Emergency Department and Subsequent Cost Savings

Randon Hall, Henry J. Domenico, Wesley H. Self et al. · PEDIATRICS · 2012 · 94 citations

Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics +11

Reducing Blood Culture Contamination in the Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time Series Quality Improvement Study

Wesley H. Self, Theodore Speroff, Carlos G. Grijalva et al. · Academic Emergency Medicine · 2013 · 89 citations · Full text

Health Professions, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Disease Control +10

Cost Analysis of Strategies to Reduce Blood Culture Contamination in the Emergency Department: Sterile Collection Kits and Phlebotomy Teams

Wesley H. Self, Thomas R. Talbot, Barbara R. Paul et al. · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 2014 · 58 citations · Full text

Medicine, Health Professions, Emergency Medicine +18

Reducing Blood Culture Contamination Rates in the Emergency Department

Andrew D. Harding, Susan Bollinger · Journal of Emergency Nursing · 2013 · 33 citations

Health Professions, Emergency Medicine, Infectious Diseases +14