When stool cultures from adult inpatients are appropriate

Lancet

Volumn 357, Issue 9260, 2001, Pages 901-902

  Wood, Martin ^a  

^a BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAMPYLOBACTER; CANDIDA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES CULTURE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA;

EID: 0035941981     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)04230-6     Document Type: Note

References (14)

1. Value of stool cultures
2. The use and abuse of routine stool microbiology: A College of American Pathologists Q-probes study of 601 institutions
3. Diarrhea acquired in the hospital
4. Inappropriate testing for diarrheal diseases in the hospital
5. Is routine screening for conventional enteric pathogens necessary in sporadic hospital-acquired diarrhoea?
6. Low yield of bacterial stool culture in children with nosocomial diarrhea
7. Etiological agents of infectious diarrhea: Implications for requests for microbial culture
8. Mechanisms and management of antibiotic-associated diarrhea
9. Application of rejection criteria for stool cultures for bacterial enteric pathogens
10. Contemporary testing for enteric pathogens: The potential for cost, time, and health care savings
11. Value of routine stool cultures in hospitalized patients with diarrhoea
12. Derivation and validation of guidelines for stool cultures for enteropathogenic bacteria other than Clostridium difficile in hospitalized adults
13. Development and implementation of cost-effective guidelines in the laboratory investigation of diarrhea in a community hospital
14. Number of comorbidities as a predictor of nosocomial infection acquisition