North Cumbria Integrated Care Foundation Trust (NCIC)

Blood Culture Technique

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  • To enabel registered providers of care to review their policies for taking blood cultures
  • To implement practice and procedures that improve the quality of blood culture investigations, increase quality and reduce risk and cost of care to patients from false positive blood culture results
  • To promote good practice in the collection of blood for culture and thus reduce the number of false positive results and resulting complications for patient safety, quality and associated cost of care
  • To reduce inappropriate sampling of blood for culture

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Contributed by: North Cumbria Integrated Care Foundation Trust (NCIC)
Authored by: NCIC, NCIC
Licence: Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International More information on licences
First contributed: 23 May 2022
Audience access level: Full user

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