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2009. Evaluation of Time to Organism Identification and Pharmacist Impact on Antibiotic Prescribing through Utilization of MALDI-TOF at Two Community, Teaching Hospitals

BACKGROUND: In patients with bacteremia, delay in appropriate therapy is associated with higher morbidity and mortality. Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) reduces the time to identification (ID) to approximately 30 minutes. Previously published studies show rapid...

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Autores principales: Walji, Samana, Thai, Xia, Ann Bruno-Murtha, Lou, Osgood, Rebecca, Atwell, Kenneth, Barner, Amanda
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/PMC6809046/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1689