Factors Associated with Blood Culture Contamination in the Emergency Department: Critical Illness, End-Stage Renal Disease, and Old Age.

Factors Associated with Blood Culture Contamination in the Emergency Department: Critical Illness, End-Stage Renal Disease, and Old Age.

Blood culture contamination in emergency departments (ED) that experience a high volume of patients has negative impacts on optimal patient care. It is therefore important to identify risk factors associated with blood culture contamination in EDs.A prospectively observational study in a university-...

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Main Authors: Chih-Jan Chang, Chi-Jung Wu, Hsiang-Chin Hsu, Chiu-Hui Wu, Fang-Ying Shih, Shou-Wen Wang, Yi-Hui Wu, Chia-Ming Chang, Yi-Fang Tu, Chih-Hsien Chi, Hsin-I Shih
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4598129?pdf=render

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