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91. Implementing Criteria to Reduce Blood Cultures Ordering: A Pre- and Post-Intervention Retrospective Study in a Critical Access Hospital

BACKGROUND: Blood culture utilization has been performed widely. Typically, clinicians order blood cultures in patients whom bacteremia is suspected. Our previous study showed that 35% of blood cultures performed in May 2019 could have been prevented since they did not meet the certain criteria. Thi...

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Autores principales: Mahatanan, Rattanaporn, Gomez, Gina, Olsen, Bridget, Henderson, Racheal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7776885/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.136