PREDICTING BACTEREMIA IN HOSPITALIZED-PATIENTS - A PROSPECTIVELY VALIDATED MODEL

被引:206
作者
BATES, DW
COOK, EF
GOLDMAN, L
LEE, TH
机构
[1] HARVARD UNIV, BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSP,SCH MED,DEPT MED, DIV CLIN EPIDEMIOL,75 FRANCIS ST, BOSTON, MA 02115 USA
[2] HARVARD UNIV, SCH PUBL HLTH, BOSTON, MA 02115 USA
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10.7326/0003-4819-113-7-495
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R5 [内科学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100201 ;
摘要
These findings provide a means of stratifying hospitalized patients according to their risk for bacteremia. If prospectively validated in other settings, this model may be helpful when deciding whether or not to do blood cultures or start antibiotic therapy and, when evaluating a positive blood culture, to determine whether or not it is a true-positive.
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