Hourly Effect of Pretreatment With IV Antibiotics on Blood Culture Positivity Rate in Emergency Department Patients

Although it is intuitive that antibiotics administered before obtaining a blood culture would reduce the likelihood of obtaining a positive culture, it is not clear exactly how rapidly and to what extent blood becomes sterile after administration of intravenous (IV) antibiotics. Using a large data s...

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Autores principales: Rand, Kenneth H, Beal, Stacy G, Rivera, Kimberly, Allen, Brandon, Payton, Thomas, Lipori, Gloria P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6527085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31139670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz179

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6527085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31139670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz179

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