Multidisciplinary team review of best practices for collection and handling of blood cultures to determine effective interventions for increasing the yield of true-positive bacteremias, reducing contamination, and eliminating false-positive central line–associated bloodstream infections

Title

Multidisciplinary team review of best practices for collection and handling of blood cultures to determine effective interventions for increasing the yield of true-positive bacteremias, reducing contamination, and eliminating false-positive central line–associated bloodstream infections

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Journal

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

Volume 43, Issue 11, Pages 1222-1237

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Online

2015-08-19

DOI

10.1016/j.ajic.2015.06.030