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Impact of stewardship practices on blood culture collection – Full Text

"Formulating safe and effective diagnostic stewardship guidance for blood cultures in immunocompromised patients is challenging due to limited data and high risk of infectious complications. A 2024 global shortage in blood culture bottles (BD Diagnostics) necessitated the implementation of blood culture stewardship, including at our tertiary care cancer center" She et al (2025).

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How to encourage IV to oral antibiotic switch – Full Text

"After implementing GN-BSI-focused AS initiatives in our large health system, we observed a shift toward more frequent oral rather than IV antibiotics at discharge, and shorter overall antibiotic durations, without obvious changes in adverse outcomes" Olson et al (2025).

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Central venous catheter-related Candida infection – Full Text

"Catheter-related Candida infections in non-critical care settings are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Fungal biomarkers may hold clinically relevant prognostic value, necessitating further investigations" Zaghdoudi et al (2025).

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Hair management and CLABSI prevention – Full Text

"Lack of empiric evidence establishing a connection between hair and CLABSI and the absence of evidence-based guidelines directing hair management creates uncertainty and variations in practice" Woodham et al (2025).

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