Benchmarking blood culture quality in the emergency department: Contamination, single sets and positivity.
Angela Z HillsMercedes RayJulian WilliamsJaimi GreensladePublished in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2023)
BC quality standards in the ED such as false positive rate <3% and single culture rate <20% are required to facilitate benchmarking and prospective quality improvement. The sensitivity and specificity of this common and critical test can be improved. Patient subgroups associated with poor-quality BC collection can be identified and should be a focus of future work.