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Increasing the volume of blood received in adult paired blood culture bottles at a regional public health laboratory: results of a quality improvement project to optimise the diagnosis of bacteraemia

BACKGROUND: Optimising the diagnosis of bacteraemia has clinical, infection control and antimicrobial stewardship benefits. It's well documented that volume of blood received in blood culture bottles affects test sensitivity. The ability of blood cultures to detect bacteraemia is proportional t...

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Autores principales: Birkhamshaw, Edmund, Winzor, Gemma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8335929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34368673
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2019.100007