Differences in time to positivity can affect the negative predictive value of blood cultures drawn through a central venous catheter [4]

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1442-1443

  Yebenes J C ^a   Serra Prat, M ^b   Miro G ^a   Sauca, G ^a   Capdevila, J A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE MATARÓ   (Spain)

^b Research Unit   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33747596874     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0245-z     Document Type: Letter

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