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Costs of Blood Culture Contamination: Justification for Rapid Diagnostics in a Community Hospital
BACKGROUND: We evaluated the cost impact of blood cultures contaminated with coagulase negative Staphylococci species (CoNS) at a community hospital in the Seattle metropolitan area. Data were used to justify acquisition of the rapid diagnostics system, Verigene. METHODS: All blood isolates of CoNS...
Autores principales: | Kassamali, Zahra, Jones, Amy, Hori, Mike |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631156/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1655 |
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