TY - JOUR T1 - A quality improvement project to improve the timeliness of blood cultures for patients on an acute medical unit JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - s7 LP - s7 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.3-2-s7 VL - 3 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Laura Davis AU - Alison Berner AU - Nicholas Deakin AU - Julian Emmanuel Y1 - 2016/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/Suppl_2/s7.abstract N2 - Junior staff on the acute medical unit (AMU) at the Royal London Hospital (RLH) noted a shortage of blood culture bottles, resulting in difficulty in obtaining blood cultures in a timely manner, with an impact on one of the key aspects of the surviving sepsis campaign: identifying the source of sepsis. In order to improve patient care and outcomes, a quality improvement project focusing on these delays was devised.Cross-sectional survey of the availability of culture bottles was … ER -