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173. Evaluating Respiratory Tract Culturing in Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Opportunity for Diagnostic Stewardship
BACKGROUND: Overdiagnosis of ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP) is common and may be due, in part, to excessive culturing of the respiratory tract in ventilated patients. We sought to evaluate the appropriateness of these cultures based on clinical characteristics leading to culture acquisition,...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9752320/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofac492.251 |