Solitary blood cultures: a College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of 132778 blood culture sets in 333 small hospitals.
From: Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
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Date: 10/1/2001
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Author: Dale, Jane C.; Novis, David A.; Ruby, Stephen G.; Schifman, Ron B.; Walsh, Molly K.
* Objective.--To determine the frequency with which solitary blood culture samples were submitted to laboratories serving small hospitals and to ascertain whether certain hospital practices relating to the performance of blood cultures were associated with lower solitary blood culture rates (SBCRs).
Design.--Participants in the College of American Pathologists Q-Probes laboratory quality improvement program collected data prospectively on the numbers of solitary blood culture sets from ...
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