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ArticleJournal of medical microbiology2021

Quality indicators for blood culture: 1 year of monitoring with BacT/Alert Virtuo at a French hospital.

Cécile Emeraud, Seher Yilmaz, Nicolas Fortineau, Gaëlle Cuzon, Laurent Dortet

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Article in Journal of medical microbiology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Evaluation of a digital remote extraction analysis and monitoring tool for key performance indicators (KPIs) in the blood culture process.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2025
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  6. The absolute number of leukocytes per vial as a major cause of early false positive blood cultures: proof-of-concept and application.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Cécile EmeraudDepartment of Bacteriology-Hygiene, Bicêtre Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
Seher YilmazDepartment of Bacteriology-Hygiene, Bicêtre Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
Nicolas FortineauDepartment of Bacteriology-Hygiene, Bicêtre Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
Gaëlle CuzonDepartment of Bacteriology-Hygiene, Bicêtre Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.
Laurent DortetDepartment of Bacteriology-Hygiene, Bicêtre Hospital, Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

Quality Indicators, Health CareSepsisBacteriaBlood CultureFranceHumansSpecimen HandlingTime FactorsaccreditationBacT/AlertVirtuoblood culturequality indicators

Identifiers

PMID33331811
PMCPMC8346724

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