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New Blood Culture Order Set Available

There is a new Blood Culture Order Set will be available – helping you quickly and accurately identify central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs). The new order set includes optional imaging/culture orders and is available when your patient meets the following criteria: 

  • Your patient has been an inpatient with a central line in place for more than two days.
  • And has at least one of the following:
    • A Jackson-Pratt drain, abdomen source only.
    • An abdominal wound documented in LDA, but no Jackson-Pratt drain.
    • A wound documented in LDA (excluding abdominal and sacral ulcer wounds).

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