Blood cultures in adult patients released from an urban emergency department: A 15-month experience

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 768-775

  Sturmann, Kai M ^a   Bopp, James ^a,b   Molinari, Diane ^a,c   Akhtar, Saadia ^a   Murphy, Jane ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Brookhaven Memorial Hospital   (United States)

^c Phelps County Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

adults; ambulatory care; bacteremia; blood cultures; endocarditis; fever; infectious disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0029786156     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1996.tb03513.x     Document Type: Article

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