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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,...

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Autores principales: Tripathi, Ravi, Kenaa, Blaine, Claeys, Kimberly C, Patel, Meghana, Maldarelli, Mary, Newman, Michelle, Leekha, Surbhi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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