Publications by authors named "Jose Vicente Val-Perez"
Introduction: Blood culture contaminations can lead to unnecessary diagnostic procedures and treatments, increasing workload, length of stay, and costs.
Objetives: Development of an educational program to reduce contamination rates.
Material And Methods: Our study compared contamination rates (CR) between a pre-intervention period (Ppre) and post-intervention period (Ppos), where clinical charts from patients with positive blood cultures were reviewed.