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Identification of the main contributors to blood culture contamination at a tertiary care academic medical center

BACKGROUND: Blood culture contamination poses an issue to all hospital systems worldwide because of the associated costs of extended length of stays, unnecessary antibiotic therapy, and additional laboratory testing that are preventable with proper handling and collection techniques. METHODS: In our...

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Autores principales: Sacchetti, Brianna, Travis, Justin, Steed, Lisa L., Webb, Ginny
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9184864/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35692894
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infpip.2022.100219