Clinical prediction rules for bacteremia and in-hospital death based on clinical data at the time of blood withdrawal for culture: An evaluation of their development and use

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 692-703

  Nakamura, Tsukasa ^b,c   Takahashi, Osamu ^b   Matsui, Kunihiko ^d   Shimizu, Shiro ^c   Setoyama, Motoichi ^e   Nakagawa, Masahisa ^c   Fukui, Tsuguya ^f   Morimoto, Takeshi ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e Kochi Health Sciences Center   (Japan)

^f ST LUKE'S INTERNATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Blood cultures; Clinical prediction rules; Gram negative rods; Integrated intelligent management system; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 33750821895     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2006.00637.x     Document Type: Article

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