Time to blood, respiratory and urine culture positivity in the intensive care unit: Implications for de-escalation

Objectives: Concern for late detection of bacterial pathogens is a barrier to early de-escalation efforts. The purpose of this study was to assess blood, respiratory and urine culture results at 72 h to test the hypothesis that early negative culture results have a clinically meaningful negative pre...

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Main Authors: Lindsey A Sellers, Kathryn M Fitton, Margaret F Segovia, Christy C Forehand, Kevin K Dobbin, Andrea Sikora Newsome
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-08-01
Series:SAGE Open Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20503121211040702