Blood culture reports by infectious disease physicians can improve prognosis of bacteremia, including weekend-onset cases

Objectives: Cases of positive blood cultures were previously reported by a microbiological technologist (MT) to an attending physician (AP), and the Antimicrobial Stewardship team provided medical assistance by grasping the situation at the morning meeting the next day. Since April 2018, MTs have re...

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Main Authors: Koichi Yamada, Gaku Kuwabara, Waki Imoto, Kazushi Yamairi, Wataru Shibata, Kazuhiro Oshima, Naoko Yoshii, Kiyotaka Nakaie, Makoto Niki, Yasuyo Okada, Akiko Fujita, Norihiro Sakurai, Yukihiro Kaneko, Hiroshi Kakeya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-11-01
Series:International Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220306391