Decreasing Hospital Observation Time for Febrile Infants
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IMPORTANCE Blood cultures are often obtained as part of the evaluation of infants with fever and these infants are typically observed until their cultures are determined to have no growth. However, the time to positivity of blood culture results in this population is not known. OBJECTIVE To determine the time to positivity of blood culture results in febrile infants admitted to a general inpa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Hospital Medicine
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1553-5606,1553-5592
DOI: 10.12788/jhm.3593