Application of the Blood Culture Train model based on procedural and behavioural interventions to improve the quality of blood culture collection
The BCT-based multi-modal strategy significantly improved blood culture collection compliance, reduced contamination and enhanced diagnostic yield. Its scalable design, underpinned by digital technologies, may be applicable to other primary and secondary healthcare settings.
Authors
- Ming Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5764-7225)
- Zhaodong Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0597-0765)
- Bo Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4526-714X)
- Tingting Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7284-9214)
- Xi Jiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9426-8854)
- Na Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3491-9560)
- Huiyi Wu
- Jiaping Wang
Institutions
- Hohai University (CN)
- The First People’s Hospital of Lianyungang (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Infection Prevention in Practice
- Published
- 2026-01-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2026.100509
- Primary Topic
- Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00