14,889
Participants
Start Date
August 31, 2011
Primary Completion Date
March 31, 2013
Study Completion Date
March 31, 2013
Blood Culture QI Program
The Blood Culture QI Program contains four components:(1) education: content knowledge and standardized experiential training on sterile technique designed for ED nurses; (2) process redesign: conversion of blood culture collection from a clean to a sterile technique using the Blood Culture Sterile Kit; (3) a checklist outlining optimal use of the Kit; (4) feedback of blood culture contamination rates to ED nurses who collect them.
Vanderbilt Emergency Medicine, Nashville
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Emergency Medicine, Nashville
Collaborators (1)
Community Health Network
OTHER
CareFusion
INDUSTRY
Vanderbilt University
OTHER