{"id":49645,"date":"2021-02-21T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T23:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/?p=49645"},"modified":"2023-06-06T18:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:06:35","slug":"study-highlights-need-for-more-qi-efforts-to-reduce-unnecessary-blood-cultures-in-routine-ssti-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/study-highlights-need-for-more-qi-efforts-to-reduce-unnecessary-blood-cultures-in-routine-ssti-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Highlights Need For More QI Efforts to Reduce Unnecessary Blood Cultures in Routine SSTI Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6881\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 224px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Sturkie-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Sturkie-2-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"emily-sturkie\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Sturkie-2-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Sturkie-2-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Sturkie-2-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Sturkie-2-1097x1536.jpg 1097w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Sturkie-2-1463x2048.jpg 1463w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Sturkie-2-600x840.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Sturkie-2-301x421.jpg 301w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/945\/2018\/12\/Sturkie-2.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Emily Sturkie, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Physician researchers in the division of hospital medicine and the division of infectious diseases collaborated for the study &#8220;Frequency and yield of blood cultures for observation patients with skin and soft tissue infections,&#8221; published this month in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0735675721001339\"><em>American Journal of Emergency Medicine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The study was designed to measure frequency and yield of blood cultures obtained for observation status in adult patients with skin and soft tissue infection (SSTI). The team described how often blood cultures were performed according to the Infectious Diseases Society of American guidelines and identified the proportion of patients meeting the Center for Medicare Services sepsis criteria. The results highlight the need for further quality improvement efforts to reduce unnecessary blood cultures in routine SSTI cases.<\/p>\n<p>The authors include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/emily-sturkie-md\/\">Emily Sturkie<\/a>, MD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/carlton-moore-md\/\">Carlton Moore<\/a>, MD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/christopher-a-caulfield-md\/\">Christopher Caulfield<\/a>, MD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/erin-schmid-fnp-bc\/\">Erin Schmid<\/a>, ANP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/anne-lachiewicz\/\">Anne Lachiewicz<\/a>, MD, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/directory\/john-r-stephens-md\/\">John Stephens<\/a>, MD.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0735675721001339\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physician researchers in the division of hospital medicine and the division of infectious diseases collaborated for the study &#8220;Frequency and yield of blood cultures for observation patients with skin and soft tissue infections,&#8221; published this month in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The study was designed to measure frequency and yield of blood cultures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/study-highlights-need-for-more-qi-efforts-to-reduce-unnecessary-blood-cultures-in-routine-ssti-cases\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Study Highlights Need For More QI Efforts to Reduce Unnecessary Blood Cultures in Routine SSTI Cases\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69419,"featured_media":6881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93,2,583],"tags":[630],"class_list":["post-49645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hospital-medicine","category-news","category-research-news","tag-630","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Study Highlights Need For More QI Efforts to Reduce Unnecessary Blood Cultures in Routine SSTI Cases | Department of Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/news\/study-highlights-need-for-more-qi-efforts-to-reduce-unnecessary-blood-cultures-in-routine-ssti-cases\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Study Highlights Need For More QI Efforts to Reduce Unnecessary Blood Cultures in Routine SSTI Cases | Department of Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Physician researchers in the division of hospital medicine and the division of infectious diseases collaborated for the study &#8220;Frequency and yield of blood cultures for observation patients with skin and soft tissue infections,&#8221; published this month in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 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