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Achieving Optimal Specialty Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Testing: Are Electronic Medical Record Order Sets Helpful?

BACKGROUND: Specialty PCR testing has become available for lumbar puncture to determine the cause of infectious meningitis and encephalitis. Testing with low pre-test probability may increase antimicrobial therapy while results are pending and create increased direct costs. We aim to describe the ap...

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Autores principales: Abrantes-Figueiredo, Jessica I, Bieluch, Virginia M, Nailor, Michael D
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/PMC5632255/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.704