Time to blood culture positivity (TTP) has been suggested as a marker of disease severity in bloodstream infection, but its clinical value can vary by pathogen and outcome. In this retrospective, ...
ICE presence could hamper blood collection amid seasonal shortage Blood supplies often run short because fewer people donate over the holidays, leaving some hospitals with less than two-day supplies ...
Tri-State blood donors have a new option. But not everyone is welcoming the addition. The American Red Cross has opened a permanent blood collection site in Cincinnati. The organization has been ...
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Background Blood culture (BC) in children has relatively low diagnostic yield and high contamination rates, limiting cost-effectiveness. We aimed to determine readily available baseline ...
LC-MS/MS faces preanalytical challenges in clinical labs, particularly with blood collection tube materials affecting measurement accuracy. Significant variability in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D ...
In clinically stable patients with suspected or confirmed infective endocarditis (IE), deferring antimicrobial treatment until blood culture results were available was not associated with 30-day ...
Our PHO unit collected central-only cultures three times more frequently than paired cultures. A noncontaminant pathogen was isolated from peripheral cultures in seven of 625 paired culture events ...
Department of Clinical Laboratory, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China Purpose: To compare the adsorption capacity of BacT/ALERT FA Plus ...
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Hospitals most commonly used the College of American Pathologists criteria to define blood culture contamination, but some used Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute criteria or the National ...