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BD Clinical and Lab Support
Assess the health of your diagnostic pathway and reveal a uniquely holistic approach to address clinical quality and workflow improvements with BD solutions and recommendations.
It can be difficult to identify the root cause of issues and inefficiencies along the diagnostic pathway that may influence the quality of results. Without knowing where to make improvements, you won’t know where to invest time, resources or training.
The BD Clinical Specialists can help you gain insights across your diagnostic pathway by objectively understanding and quantifying challenges, risks and inefficiencies, along with giving you tailored BD solutions and recommendations to address your specific needs.
Challenges of bloodstream infection diagnostics
The bloodstream infection diagnostic pathway is complex and involves a great number of stakeholders. Nursing and lab leaders play distinct yet interconnected and critical roles in that process, but in the absence of functional alignment and metrics that span the entire diagnostic pathway, it is difficult for either team to fully appreciate each other's worlds and their combined impact on patient care.
Preanalytical errors (occurring before a specimen reaches the laboratory) may account for up to 70% of all the clinical errors made in laboratory diagnostics.3 The blood culture collection process involves many touchpoints where these preanalytical errors can be introduced and negatively impact clinically important diagnostic results.
Take a holistic view of your entire bloodstream infection pathway
By working with BD Clinical Specialists and leveraging insights from BD informatics and services, you can aim for clinical and operational excellence across the BSI diagnostic pathway. With their unique expertise, the BD Clinical Specialists will help you evaluate the diagnostic pathway through a broader lens. You will receive an objective assessment of practices and use of instrumentation across your bloodstream infection diagnostic pathway, and you’ll get recommendations of how BD solutions may help address your challenges.
Reduce variability and inefficiencies that create waste and risk
Through the combination of observed insights, extensive clinical and diagnostic expertise, and data from BD informatics, you will have the opportunity to identify sources of error and/or inefficiencies across the diagnostic pathway, and continually monitor, measure, and strive for improved performance. Ultimately, by removing unnecessary complexity and equipping your staff with the right tools, you create the opportunity to drive sustainable change both inside and outside of the lab.1,2
Establish greater accountability and maintain adherence to best practices
By sharing insights and metrics with your teams, you will be empowered to establish and foster greater long-term accountability across the entire pathway, support adherence to best practices for collection and testing of blood cultures to address key bloodstream infection metrics, while creating the potential to improve patient experience and outcomes across your health system.1,2
Accurate laboratory results are crucial to effective patient care
Improving efficiency, reducing costs, improving patient experience, and avoiding serious issues like antimicrobial resistance (AMR), among many others, are important for ensuring better outcomes for patients and healthcare workers alike. We believe that accurate laboratory results play a significant role in achieving these objectives. With hundreds of assessments conducted globally since 2017, BD is your trusted partner to assess and understand your performance along the diagnostic pathway.
Preanalytical factors are important considerations for quality laboratory results
Specimen integrity, consistent quality, and streamlined processes help deliver accurate diagnostic test results, which could influence patient outcomes and potentially reduce costs. That’s why we are focused on helping you identify opportunities to drive improved performance of specimen collection.
BD Clinical Specialists can perform an onsite review of how urine and blood samples are collected, handled, and transported and give you BD solutions and recommendations that align with industry guidelines.
Are you interested in leveraging BD Clinical Solutions to enhance efforts in lowering costs and complexity, while creating the potential to improve patient experience and outcomes across your health system?
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- Khare R et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2020;70(2):262–8.
- Lippi G et al. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2011;49(7):1113–26.
- Plebani M. Clin Biochem Rev. 2012;(33):85–8.
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