Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine
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Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. · Oct 2005
Trends in blood culture contamination: a College of American Pathologists Q-Tracks study of 356 institutions.
Blood culture contamination extends hospital stays and increases the cost of care. ⋯ Institutions that use decentralized patient-centered personnel rather than dedicated phlebotomy teams to collect blood cultures experience significantly higher contamination rates. Long-term monitoring of contamination is associated with sustained improvement in performance.
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Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. · Oct 2005
Biography Historical ArticleSurgical pathology in the era of the Civil War: the remarkable life and accomplishments of Joseph Janvier Woodward, MD.
Joseph Janvier Woodward was an assistant surgeon in the US Army during the Civil War, coauthored the definitive works on the mortality and morbidity of that war, attended at the autopsy of President Lincoln, and attended President Garfield after he was shot. He revolutionized the field of photomicroscopy and was one of the first pathologists to use aniline dyes as tissue stains. Yet despite the occasional biographical sketch every few decades, he is largely unknown today. Herein, we review his contributions to surgical pathology and medicine and present modern-day photomicrographs of 140-year-old slides from Woodward's original collection.