Blood cultures for febrile patients in the acute care setting: Too quick on the draw?

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 539-546

  Chesnutt, Barbara K ^a,c   Zamora, Martin R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c PC   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Fever; Fever threshold; Predictors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY TEMPERATURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEVER; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NURSE PRACTITIONER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; INPATIENTS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55349125368     PISSN: 10412972     EISSN: 17457599     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7599.2008.00356.x     Document Type: Review

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