A retrospective evaluation of critical care blood culture yield - Do support services contribute to the "weekend effect"?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Morton, Ben ^a,b   Nagaraja, Shankara ^b   Collins, Andrea ^a,c   Pennington, Shaun H ^a   Blakey, John D ^a,b  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BLOOD CULTURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UROGENITAL TRACT INFECTION; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL CARE OUTCOME; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOURS CARE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; UTILIZATION;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL CARE OUTCOMES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84949254863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141361     Document Type: Article

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