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Validity of calendar day-based definitions for community-onset bloodstream infections

BACKGROUND: Community-onset (CO) bloodstream infections (BSI) are those BSI where the blood culture is drawn <48 hours from hospital admission. However, exact times of culture draw or hospital admission are not always available. We evaluated the validity of using 2- or 3- calendar day based defin...

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Autores principales: Laupland, Kevin B, Gregson, Daniel B, Church, Deirdre L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4389998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1051-x