Effectiveness of practices to reduce blood culture contamination: A Laboratory Medicine Best Practices systematic review and meta-analysis
Snyder SR, Favoretto AM, Baetz RA, Derzon JH, Madison BM, Mass D, Shaw CS, Layfield CD, Christenson RH, Liebow EB.
Clin Biochem. 2012 Sep;45(13-14):999-1011.
Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation, Associated Laboratory Consultants, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, University of Maryland, United States
- Review the effectiveness of three practices for reducing blood culture contamination rates: venipuncture, phlebotomy teams, and prepackaged preparation/collection (prep) kits.
- All studies for venipuncture and phlebotomy teams favored these practices. For prep kits 6 studies’ effect sizes were not statistically significantly different from no effect.