Utility of peripheral blood cultures in patients with cancer and suspected blood stream infections: A systematic review

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3261-3267

  Rodríguez, Laura ^a   Ethier, Marie Chantal ^a   Phillips, Bob ^b   Lehrnbecher, Thomas ^c   Doyle, John ^a   Sung, Lillian ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Blood culture; Cancer; Central venous line

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANCER PATIENT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84868458825     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-012-1471-2     Document Type: Review

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