Trial reportEmergency medicine journal : EMJ2003
Utility of blood cultures in the management of adults with community acquired pneumonia discharged from the emergency department.
Trial report in Emergency medicine journal : EMJ, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Diagnostic and prognostic implications of bacteremia in patients with complicated pleural infection.Pleura and peritoneum · 2024Article
- Urinary Antigen Testing for Respiratory Infections: Current Perspectives on Utility and Limitations.Infection and drug resistance · 2022Review
- Value of Blood Cultures in the Management of Children Hospitalized with Community-Acquired Pneumonia.Cureus · 2020Article
- Utility of Blood Cultures in Pneumonia.The American journal of medicine · 2019Observational
- Safety and feasibility of antibiotic de-escalation in bacteremic pneumonia.Infection and drug resistance · 2014Article
- Should Blood Cultures be Performed in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients?Indian journal of palliative care · 2012Article
- Factors associated with positive blood cultures in outpatients with suspected bacteremia.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2011Article
- Updated review of blood culture contamination.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2006Review
- Improved diagnosis of the etiology of community-acquired pneumonia with real-time polymerase chain reaction.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2005Article
- Blood cultures in ambulatory outpatients.BMC infectious diseases · 2005Article
- [Contribution of microbiological investigations to the diagnosis of lower respiratory tract infections].Medecine et maladies infectieusesReview
- [Assessment, triage, and follow-up of a patient with: acute CAP COPD].Medecine et maladies infectieusesReview
- [Managing lower respiratory tract infections in immunocompetent patients. Definitions, epidemiology, and diagnostic features].Medecine et maladies infectieusesReview
- Therapeutic impact of CT-guided percutaneous catheter drainage in treatment of deep tissue abscesses.The Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious DiseasesArticle
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Abstract
STUDY
objectiveTo assess the clinical value of blood cultures (BCs) in the management of adult patients discharged from the emergency department (ED) with a diagnosis of community acquired pneumonia (CAP).
methodsThe courses of antibiotic regimens and outcomes of patients with positive BC results were examined to assess their influence on BCs.
resultsBCs were obtained from 289 outpatients. Six clinically significant organisms were identified (a yield of 2.1%). Outpatients with CAP who had blood cultures performed had a 0.69% (2 of 289) chance of having a change of treatment directed by the results of the culture.
conclusionBCs have little utility in the ambulatory management of CAP.
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