Effectiveness of a Novel Specimen Collection System in Reducing Blood Culture Contamination Rates

• Study data was limited to only those blood cultures collected with the device. It does not reflect the impact on the overall blood culture contamination rate.
• The data showed an 82.8% reduction in false positives.
• Based on the historical 3.52% rate of blood-culture contamination for the health facilities, 2.92 false positives were prevented for every 100 blood cultures drawn.

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