Open AccessImproved blood culture workflow in the time to detection of microorganisms placing incubators systems outside of microbiology laboratory
Author(s) -
María Ángeles Orellana,
Fernando Cháves,
Rafaël Delgado
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
brazilian journal of microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1678-4405
pISSN - 1517-8382
DOI - 10.1007/s42770-020-00298-x
Subject(s) - incubator , workflow , staffing , clinical microbiology , blood culture , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , biology , computer science , antibiotics , database , nursing
We analyzed the workflow of the blood culture procedure with one blood culture incubator in the microbiology laboratory, in comparison with the workflow with the incubators systems placing outside, and in a microbiology laboratory without 24-h staffing.