Blood cultures in the critical care unit: Improving utilization and yield

Chest

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1727-1736

  Shafazand, Shirin ^a   Weinacker, Ann B ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Blood cultures; Critically ill; ICU; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CONTAMINATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEVER; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC DISEASE;

EID: 0036433481     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.122.5.1727     Document Type: Article

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