Efficacy of a Multicenter Hospital Network's Approach to Enacting Blood Culture Stewardship During a Global Shortage.

The recent global blood culture bottle shortage forced hospitals to implement new diagnostic stewardship programs. In this brief report, we describe our approach as a multicenter hospital network through a system-wide memorandum and the implementation of a best practice advisory, which decreased the use of blood cultures without negatively affecting the sepsis-related mortality rate.