Resource utilization and contaminated blood cultures in children at risk for occult bacteremia.
Open Access
- 1 May 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
- Vol. 154 (5), 469-473
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.154.5.469
Abstract
To measure the increases in resource utilization and hospital charges associated with the evaluation of contaminated blood cultures obtained from emergency department patients at risk for occult bacteremia.Keywords
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