Predictive value of blood cultures positive for coagulase-negative staphylococci: Implications for patient care and health care quality assurance

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 333-341

  Tokars, Jerome I ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Mailstop E 55 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VENOUS BLOOD;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COAGULASE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 3943107535     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/421941     Document Type: Article

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