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A Retrospective Evaluation of Critical Care Blood Culture Yield – Do Support Services Contribute to the “Weekend Effect”?

BACKGROUND: The “weekend effect” describes an increase in adverse outcomes for patients admitted at the weekend. Critical care units have moved to higher intensity working patterns to address this with some improved outcomes. However, support services have persisted with traditional working patterns...

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Autores principales: Morton, Ben, Nagaraja, Shankara, Collins, Andrea, Pennington, Shaun H., Blakey, John D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26492559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141361