Quality of blood culture testing - a survey in intensive care units and microbiological laboratories across four European countries

INTRODUCTION: Blood culture (BC) testing before initiation of antimicrobial therapy is recommended as a standard of care in international sepsis guidelines and has been shown to reduce intensive care unit (ICU) stay, antibiotic use, and costs in hospitalized patients. Whereas microbiological laborat...

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Autores principales: Schmitz, Roland PH, Keller, Peter M, Baier, Michael, Hagel, Stefan, Pletz, Mathias W, Brunkhorst, Frank M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4056044/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24144084
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc13074

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