Blood culture use in the emergency department in patients hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia.
Open Access
- 1 May 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Internal Medicine
- Vol. 174 (5), 803-6
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.13808
Abstract
Routine blood cultures for all patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia have limited utility, and false-positive results lead to inappropriate antimicrobial use and longer hospital stays.1 As a result, performance measures and practice guidelines that promoted obtaining blood cultures in all such patients were modified from 2005 through 2007 to recommend routine collection in only the sickest patients.1,2 Using a national sample of emergency department visits, we examined patterns of obtaining cultures in adults hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia.Keywords
This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
- Validity of British Thoracic Society guidance (the CRB-65 rule) for predicting the severity of pneumonia in general practice: systematic review and meta-analysisBritish Journal of General Practice, 2010
- Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in AdultsClinical Infectious Diseases, 2007
- The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Community-Acquired Pneumonia Initiative: What Went Wrong?Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2005
- Predicting Bacteremia in Patients with Community-Acquired PneumoniaAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2004
- Contaminant blood cultures and resource utilization. The true consequences of false-positive results.1991
- Contaminant blood cultures and resource utilization. The true consequences of false-positive resultsJAMA, 1991