Blood Culture Utilization Metrics

Blood Culture Utilization Metrics

Rebekah Moehring, MD, MPH Bobby Warren, MPS

dcasip.medicine.duke.edu

Current practice: Question 1

Does your hospital routinely review or track Blood culture utilization data?

Metrics of volume Who uses and reviews the data? Automated or manual tracking?

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Current practice: Question 2

Does your hospital routinely review or track Blood culture contamination data?

Metrics of skin contaminant pathogens Who uses and reviews the data? Automated or manual tracking?

3

What metrics and Best Practice standards are there?

"I'm not aware of benchmarking recommendations for blood culture utilization / denominator and imagine it would be hard to recommend or apply given the wide variation in bacteremia risk between clinical syndrome, populations, units, and institutions."

CLSI M47 (5/2007, update pending) ................
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