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1112. Improving Urine Culturing Practices in a Neurocritical Care Unit through a Multidisciplinary Algorithm-Based Approach
BACKGROUND: Asymptomatic bacteriuria is common in hospitalized patients with urinary catheters. Inappropriate urine culturing as part of reflexive response to fever contributes to unnecessary and excessive antibiotic use, selection for resistant organisms, increased risk for Clostridium difficile in...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6811226/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.976 |