Field trials of blood culture identification FilmArray in regional Australian hospitals.

CONCLUSIONS: There was a reduction of 1.21 days in the time taken to produce a definitive BCID compared to the previous year, translating into earlier communication of more specific blood culture results to the treating physician. Reduced time to definitive blood culture results has a direct benefit for isolated Australian communities at great distances from specialist hospital services.
PMID: 29533172 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - March 13, 2018 Category: Microbiology Authors: Bzdyl NM, Urosevic N, Payne B, Brockenshire R, McIntyre M, Leung MJ, Weaire-Buchanan G, Geelhoed E, Inglis TJJ Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research