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Johns Hopkins Medicine: Multicenter Study Shows U.S. Hospitals Vary Greatly in How They Define Blood Culture Contamination
September 05, 2025

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sept. 5 (TNSjou) -- Johns Hopkins Medicine issued the following news release:

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Multicenter Study Shows U.S. Hospitals Vary Greatly in How They Define Blood Culture Contamination

Federally funded research suggests that standardizing what defines contamination could increase accuracy of diagnoses, optimize treatments, avoid unnecessary medications and improve patient outcomes

Blood cultures, a laboratory test for detecti . . .

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