Effect of the introduction of a management bundle for blood culture collection

Abstract Background Inappropriate blood collection subjected to blood culture (BC) causes BC contamination and may complicate the diagnos is of infectious diseases. Therefore, we developed a bundle based on the guideline recommendations for appropriate blood collection and examined the effects of bundle introduction. Methods We performed a retrospective analysis of BC samples to determine the contamination rates before and after introducing the BC bundle. We also analyzed the correlation between the compliance rate of the bundle and contamination rate, and between each bundle element and contamination. Results After the introduction of the bundle, the contamination rate was significantly reduced from 5.4±0.9% to 1.7±0.7% (p Conclusions This study suggests that the introduction of the BC bundle significantly reduced the contamination rate, and bundle compliance was associated with a lower contamination rate.