Culture of Cultures: A Small Step Towards Augmenting Diagnostic Stewardship.

Laboratories with a well-established diagnostic stewardship program for culture and the antimicrobial susceptibility test (C-AST) play a key role in guiding clinicians to institute specific targeted therapy. Blood culture is one of the most critical investigations performed at a microbiology laboratory. Therefore, it is particularly important to develop a robust diagnostic stewardship model for the blood culture laboratory division.