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Patient-specific risk factors contributing to blood culture contamination
OBJECTIVE: Contaminated blood cultures result in extended hospital stays and unnecessary antibiotic therapy. Patient-specific factors associated with blood culture contamination remain largely unexplored. Identifying patients at higher risk of blood culture contamination could alert healthcare provi...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9614848/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36310794 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ash.2022.22 |