FOX8 Cleveland

Newly Released CLSI National Blood Culture Guidelines Identify Best Practices and Evidence-Based Technology Solutions Such as Steripath® to Improve Patient Safety and Outcomes

Steripath ® Initial Specimen Diversion Device ®, a clinically proven solution, enables hospitals to meet the new goal of 1% blood culture contamination as published in CLSI's M47 Principles and ...
Labroots

Strategies to Improve Your Lab's Blood Culture Process

A blood culture is a routine laboratory test in which blood – or another sterile body fluid – is taken from a patient and inoculated into bottles containing specialized media to determine whether ...
WDAF-TV

The National Quality Forum (NQF) Endorses Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) New Blood Culture Contamination Quality Measure

This new Patient Safety Measure, independently developed and submitted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for consideration in April 2022 and formally endorsed by NQF in December ...
KXAN

Magnolia Medical's Steripath® Initial Specimen Diversion Device® Only Device Clinically Proven to Meet CDC's New Guidelines to Reduce Blood Culture Contamination

SEATTLE, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Magnolia Medical Technologies, Inc., commends the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for releasing its new evidence-based guidelines, Blood Culture ...