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81. Reducing Unnecessary Blood Cultures Through Diagnostic Stewardship

BACKGROUND: At our institution, we learned the frequency of blood cultures was sometimes being changed from “Once” to “Daily” without a defined number of days. We hypothesized this led to unnecessary blood cultures being performed. METHODS: Over a 3 month period from 12/6/2019-3/6/2020, we retrospec...

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Autores principales: Govindan, Sujeet, Strnad, Luke
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8644521/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofab466.283