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Higher nursing care level is associated with higher incidence of blood culture contamination in the emergency department: A case–control study

BACKGROUND: Blood culture is critical in treating infectious diseases. This leads to unnecessary intervention, inappropriate antibiotic use, and excess cost. Few studies have tackled patient factors that could possibly affect contamination rates. This study aimed to explore the association between p...

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Autores principales: Shigeno, Ayami, Homma, Yosuke, Matsumoto, Taiga, Tanaka, Shun, Onodera, Ryuta, Oda, Rentaro, Funakoshi, Hiraku
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9808149/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36605915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgf2.585