Discarding the initial aliquot of blood does not reduce contamination rates in intravenous-catheter-drawn blood cultures

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2950-2951

  Dwivedi, Sukrut ^a   Bhalla, Rohit ^a   Hoover, Donald R ^a,b   Weinstein, Melvin P ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYRINGE;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CATHETERIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; PHLEBOTOMY;

EID: 69949089851     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00292-09     Document Type: Article

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