TABLE 3.

Status of physicians collecting blood samples for blood culture in the emergency department.

	True bacteremia (n = 224)	True negative (n = 704)	Contamination (n = 138)
First‐year residents	71 (31.7)	224 (31.8)	50 (36.2)
Second‐year residents	40 (17.9)	144 (20.5)	29 (21.0)
Physicians experienced less than or equal to 10 years	97 (43.3)	277 (39.3)	49 (35.5)
Physicians experienced more than 10 years	16 (7.1)	59 (8.4)	10 (7.2)

Note: First‐year residents mean first‐year trainees (postgraduate year 1 [PGY1]). Second‐year residents mean second‐year trainees (postgraduate year 2 [PGY2]). Physicians experienced less than or equal to 10 years mean that physicians who had finished their postgraduate clinical training for 2 years, and their experience was more than 2 years and less than or equal to 10 years. Physicians experienced more than 10 years mean that physicians who had finished their residency program, and their experience was more than 10 years.