How do blood cultures sent from a paediatric accident and emergency department influence subsequent clinical management?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 347-348

  Leonard, Paul ^a   Beattie, T F ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY WARD; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFANT; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROORGANISM; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PEDIATRICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0037622908     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.20.4.347     Document Type: Article

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