Identifying Patients with Bacteremia in Community-Hospital Emergency Rooms: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

OBJECTIVES:(1) To develop a clinical prediction rule to identify patients with bacteremia, using only information that is readily available in the emergency room (ER) of community hospitals, and (2) to test the validity of that rule with a separate, independent set of data. DESIGN:Multicenter retros...

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Main Authors: Taro Takeshima, Yosuke Yamamoto, Yoshinori Noguchi, Nobuyuki Maki, Koichiro Gibo, Yukio Tsugihashi, Asako Doi, Shingo Fukuma, Shin Yamazaki, Eiji Kajii, Shunichi Fukuhara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4811592?pdf=render