Sustained reduction in blood culture utilization following a crisis-driven diagnostic stewardship intervention
Following a global 2024 blood culture bottle shortage, we implemented a multidisciplinary stewardship intervention to reduce utilization. Upon supply normalization in 2025, a durable 34.8% reduction in utilization was maintained without increasing sepsis-related mortality, demonstrating that crisis-driven shifts can successfully establish a sustainable "new steady state."
Authors
- Scott Borgetti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6840-914X)
- Lior Cohen-Yatziv (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0496-4726)
- Alan E. Gross (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9352-8389)
- Jenna Adams (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7137-6529)
- Alfredo J Mena Lora (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8337-757X)
- Nahed Ismail (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2399-7582)
Institutions
- Chulalongkorn University (TH)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
- Published
- 2026-07-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2026.10504
- Primary Topic
- Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign