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The effectiveness of interventions to reduce peripheral blood culture contamination in acute care: a systematic review protocol

BACKGROUND: Blood cultures are an integral part of the diagnosis of bacteremia in unwell patients. The treatment of bacteremia involves the rapid and accurate identification of the causative agent grown from the blood cultures collected. Contamination of blood cultures with non-pathogenic microbes s...

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Autores principales: Hughes, J. A., Cabilan, C. J., Williams, Julian, Ray, Mercedes, Coyer, Fiona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6267024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30497526
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-018-0877-4