openalexFrontiers in Public Health2026-07-24
Enhancing the effectiveness of multidisciplinary interventions to improve blood culture efficiency and optimize antimicrobial utilization
Rana Hassan D. Almaghrabi, Deena S. S. Alharbi, Khulud Salem Mohammed Alqahtani, Muneerah Abdulrahman Y. Alzouman, Turki Saqer J. Almutairi, Abdullah Bandar T. Alotaibi, et al.
Background Blood cultures are essential for diagnosing bloodstream infections and for guiding antimicrobial therapy. Excessive blood culture utilization in non-ICU settings can lead to false-positive results, antibiotic exposure, increased healthcare costs, and harm to patients.…