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Education and coaching to optimise blood culture volumes: continuous quality improvement in microbiology

The blood volume cultured in the detection of bacteraemia is a major variable in treating patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome. The fact that drawing optimal volumes (8–10 mL) of blood for culture increases the sensitivity of the method is well established. This study aimed to optim...

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Autores principales: Libertin, Claudia R, Sacco, Keith A, Peterson, Joy H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6059330/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30057953
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000228