Impact of hourly emergency department patient volume on blood culture contamination and diagnostic yield

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1721-1726

  Halverson, Schuyler ^a   Malani, Preeti N ^a,b   Newton, Duane W ^a   Habicht, Andrea ^a   Vander Have, Kenneth ^a   Younger, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b GERIATRIC RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CLINICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTROPHIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROCOCCUS; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CROWDING; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS DURANS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRANULICATELLA; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROCOCCUS; OCHROBACTRUM ANTHROPI; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROWDING; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPECIMEN HANDLING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878521972     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.03422-12     Document Type: Article

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