747Implementation of weight-based blood culture collection in pediatric hematology/oncology patients
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hematology/oncology patients Martina I. Lefterova, MD, PhD; Jennifer I. Romero; Kathleen Gutierrez, MD; Gary V. Dahl; Niaz Banaei, MD; Pathology, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, CA; Immunology and Ophthalmology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA; Stanford University Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Palo Alto, CA; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; Departments of Pathology and Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
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