Bacteremia

Study findings from N.I. Shapiro et al provide new insights into bacteremia

Published in Blood Weekly, December 4th, 2008

According to a study from the United States, "The study objective was to derive and validate a clinical decision rule for obtaining blood cultures in Emergency Department (ED) patients with suspected infection. This was a prospective, observational cohort study of consecutive adult ED patients with blood cultures obtained."

"The study rail from February 1, 2000 through February 1, 2001. Patients were randomly assigned to derivation (2/3) or validation (1/3) sets. The outcome was ''true bacteremia.'' Features of the history, co-morbid illness, physical examination, and laboratory testing were used to create a clinical decision rule. Among 3901 patients, 3730 (96%) were...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2008-12-04)

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