What Is the Relevance of Obtaining Multiple Blood Samples for Culture? A Comprehensive Model to Optimize the Strategy for Diagnosing Bacteremia
Open Access
- 1 October 2002
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 35 (7) , 842-850
- https://doi.org/10.1086/342383
Abstract
Through a heuristic and probabilistic approach, we evaluated blood culture operating characteristics (sensitivity, specificity, and predictive valuesKeywords
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