What is the relevance of obtaining multiple blood samples for culture? A comprehensive model to optimize the strategy for diagnosing bacteremia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 842-850

  Lamy, Brigitte ^a,b   Roy, Pascal ^a,b   Carret, Gérard ^a,b   Flandrois, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Delignette Muller, Marie Laure ^c  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c VETAGRO SUP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD VOLUME; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; META ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BACTEREMIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 0036789293     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342383     Document Type: Article

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