Timing of Specimen Collection for Blood Cultures from Febrile Patients with Bacteremia
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Timing of specimen collection for blood cultures from febrile patients with bacteremia.
Bloodstream infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality. Physician orders for blood cultures often specify that blood specimens be collected at or around the time of a temperature elevation, presumably as a means of enhancing the likelihood of detecting significant bacteremia. In a multicenter study, which utilized retrospective patient chart reviews as a means of collecting da...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Microbiology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0095-1137,1098-660X
DOI: 10.1128/jcm.02033-07