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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2021-08-01
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Series: | SAGE Open Medicine |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/20503121211040702 |