Blood culturing (BC) remains the gold standard for bloodstream diagnosis but its workflow is slow. We aimed reducing this time by implementing a new automated incubator with a 24/7 BC workflow. With this new strategy, time to incubation was shorter (1.52 h vs 6.82 h), positivity rates were higher (10.6% vs 8.9%, p<0.05), and the number of BSI diagnostics increased (16.1% vs 13.8% patients and 2.3 vs 1.9 density episode per 1000 hospital days). Our results show that implementing automatic loading of BC bottles with a 24/7 strategy not only shortened time to diagnosis but significantly increased the BSI diagnosis rate.

血培养 (BC) 仍然是血流诊断的金标准，但其工作流程很慢。我们的目标是通过实施具有 24/7 BC 工作流程的新自动化孵化器来减少这一时间。使用这种新策略，潜伏时间更短（1.52 小时 vs 6.82 小时），阳性率更高（10.6% vs 8.9%，p < 0.05），并且 BSI 诊断的数量增加（16.1% vs 13.8% 患者和 2.3对比每 1000 个住院日 1.9 次密度发作）。我们的结果表明，采用 24/7 策略实现 BC 瓶的自动装载不仅缩短了诊断时间，而且显着提高了 BSI 诊断率。