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Multifaceted Approach to Optimize Blood Volume Inoculated into Culture Bottles in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

BACKGROUND: Blood culture is essential in diagnosing blood stream infections (BSIs). It is well known that blood volume inoculated into the culture bottle is directly associated with blood culture positivity. However, effective interventions to encourage physicians to increase inoculum volume in ped...

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Autores principales: Shoji, Kensuke, Tsuboi, Norihiko, Arakawa, Ritsuro, Ide, Kentaro, Kato, Akira, Miyairi, Isao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631423/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1550