Optimizing the use of blood cultures in the febrile postoperative patient
- 30 April 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of the American College of Surgeons
- Vol. 194 (4), 477-487
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1072-7515(02)01115-8
Abstract
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