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To wait or not to wait: Optimal time interval between the first and second blood-culture sets to maximize blood-culture yield

The optimal timing of blood culture (BCx) sets collection has not been evaluated with continuous BCx detection systems. The yield of BCx was similar between short intervals (median, 3 minutes) and longer intervals (median, 16 or 43 minutes) among 5,856 BCx, except for improved polymicrobial bacterem...

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Autores principales: Fabre, Valeria, Jones, George F., Hsu, Yea-Jen, Carroll, Karen C., Cosgrove, Sara E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9614788/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36310816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.27