Blood Culture Results Before and After Antimicrobial Administration in Patients With Severe Manifestations of Sepsis

P. Cheng, Matthew; Stenstrom, Robert; Paquette, Katryn; Stabler, Sarah; Akhter, Murtaza; C Davidson, Adam; Gavric, Marko; Lawandi, Alexander; Jinah, Rehman; A. Saeed, Zahid; Demir, Koray; Huang, Kelly; Mahpour, Amirali; Shamatutu, Chris; Caya, Chelsea; Troquet, J; Clark, Gregory; P. Yansouni, Cédric; Sweet, David; the FABLED Investigators*, for

doi:10.7326/m19-1696

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Blood Culture Results Before and After Antimicrobial Administration in Patients With Severe Manifestations of Sepsis

Published in Annals of Internal Medicine • Sep 16, 2019

Authors:

Matthew P. Cheng

Robert Stenstrom

Katryn Paquette

Abstract

Background: Administering antimicrobial agents before obtaining blood cultures could potentially decrease time to treatment and improve outcomes, but it is unclear how this strategy affects diagnostic sensitivity. Objective: To determine the sensitivity of blood cultures obtained shortly after initi...

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Medicine

Interquartile range

Blood culture

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