722Infectious Diseases Consultation Increases Adherence with Quality of Care Indicators for Management of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia
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Care Indicators for Management of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Manjit Dhillon; Kaushal Shah, MD; Muhammad Salman Ashraf, MD; Hao Nguyen, MD; Paul Cook, MD; Infectious Diseases, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; Infectious Disease, East Carolina University/Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC; Infectious Disease, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases Division, East Carolina University-Brody School of Medicine, Greenville, NC
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Impact of Infectious Disease Consultation on Quality of Care, Mortality, and Length of Stay in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: Results From a Large Multicenter Cohort Study.
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TO THE EDITOR—We thank Fries et al [1] and Valentin et al [2] for their comments about our study [3] and for providing their data. Although their results did not control for confounders, their experience adds to previous work showing that consultation with an infectious diseases specialist improves the management and prognosis of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB), as reviewed in our articl...
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