Blood cultures are commonly performed in emergency medical admissions but the extent
to which they improve established prognostic algorithms has been infrequently studied
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[1]
]. We report on a large dataset of blood cultures on all consecutive emergency medical
patients admitted to our institution over 11 years. We were particularly focused on
the outcomes for those with a positive blood culture and sought to investigate the
relationship with 30-day in-hospital mortality.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: December 17, 2022
Accepted:
December 12,
2022
Received:
November 21,
2022
Publication stage
In Press Corrected ProofIdentification
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