Blood Culture Turnaround Time in U.S. Acute Care Hospitals and Implications for Laboratory Process Optimization¶
Martiny, A. H. (2018). Blood Culture Turnaround Time in U.S. Acute Care Hospitals and Implications for Laboratory Process Optimization. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 56(12).
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- The result clock produces the informing evidence — a blood culture identifying the exact organism and its antibiotic sensitivities — only at time E, typically 24 to 72 hours later.
This sourceReports that blood culture organism identification and susceptibility reporting typically take on the order of 1–3 days, documenting the multi-day result clock against the one-hour antibiotic decision clock.
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A 13-hospital US study found organism identification about 2 days and susceptibility results about 3 days after blood-culture collection (medians 1.81 and 2.71 days).
“The overall average turnaround times from specimen collection for Gram stain, organism ID, and AST were approximately 1, 2, and 3 days, respectively.”
- The result clock produces the informing evidence — a blood culture identifying the exact organism and its antibiotic sensitivities — only at time E, typically 24 to 72 hours later.
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