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Maria E Navas1, Salman Siddiq1, Laurie Bauer1
1Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System, Cleveland, OH, USA.
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We compare two initial specimen diversion devices evaluated over 3 months to investigate their utility in lowering blood culture contamination rates at or below 1%. Overall contamination rates during trial periods were 2.46% and 2.60% but usage was low, whereas device-specific contamination rates were 0.68% and 0.8%, respectively.
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