Risk factors for negative blood cultures in adult medical inpatients - A retrospective analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Ehrenstein, Boris P ^a   Ehrenstein, Vera ^b   Henke, Christine ^a   Linde, Hans Jörg ^a   Salzberger, Bernd ^a   Schölmerich, Jürgen ^a   Glück, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATHETER INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENERAL CONDITION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 56049111356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-148     Document Type: Article

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