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585. A Cost-Effective Implementation Reducing The Number Of Urine Cultures In An Acute Care Community Hospital

BACKGROUND: Asymptomatic bacteriuria is a common finding in hospitalized patients. This is defined as bacteriuria of ≥10(5) colony-forming units (cfu) per mL without any genitourinary signs or symptoms. Treatment for such leads to increased antimicrobial resistance and is especially common in the in...

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Autores principales: Jain, Rohit, Sahu, Nitasa, Marsh, Denise, Raines, Shannon, Jones, Kirk, Vunnam, Ramarao, Bhatt, Dhirisha, Golamari, Reshma, Hussein, Rezhan
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/PMC7777065/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.779