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Is it time for a culture change? Blood culture collection in the emergency department

Overview of attention for article published in Emergency Medicine Australasia, July 2018
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Title
Is it time for a culture change? Blood culture collection in the emergency department
Published in
Emergency Medicine Australasia, July 2018
DOI 10.1111/1742-6723.13122
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Kerina J Denny, Amy Sweeny, Julia Crilly, Samuel Maloney, Gerben Keijzers

Abstract

To describe how frequently blood cultures (BCs) are obtained in the ED and to describe the incidence of true- and false-positive BC results. Retrospective descriptive study of all patients presenting to a tertiary-level, mixed Australian ED over a 15 month period. A total of 3617 (3.67%) patients had BCs collected. Around one (12.1%) in eight of these BCs were positive; nearly half (45.2%) of which were identified as a false positive. BCs are a common investigation in the ED with a high false-positive rate. Strategies are required to reduce false positives, including reducing inappropriate collection and improving collection techniques.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 23 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 13%
Other 3 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 13%
Lecturer 1 4%
Other 3 13%
Unknown 6 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 39%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 17%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 March 2019.
All research outputs
#3,152,305
of 24,458,924 outputs
Outputs from Emergency Medicine Australasia
#401
of 1,875 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#61,761
of 332,770 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Emergency Medicine Australasia
#10
of 40 outputs
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