Blood culture quality improvement: A College of American Pathologists Q- probes study involving 909 institutions and 289 572 blood culture sets

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 999-1002

  Schifman, Ron B ^a,d   Bachner, Paul ^b   Howanitz, Peter J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; SEPSIS;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, CLINICAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029832798     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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