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Clinical and economic impact of contaminated blood cultures within the hospital setting

Yaser M. Alahmadi, Mamoon A. Aldeyab, James C. McElnay, Michael Scott, Feras Darwish Elhajji, Fidelma A. Magee, M. Dowds, Collette Edwards, Lynne Fullerton, A. Tate,

Journal of Hospital Infection · 2011 · 224 citations · 13 references

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Coding Algorithms for Defining Comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 Administrative Data

Hude Quan, Vijaya Sundararajan, Patricia Halfon et al. · Medical Care · 2005 · 10.6K citations

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Contaminant Blood Cultures and Resource Utilization

David W. Bates · JAMA · 1991 · 549 citations

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Blood Cultures Positive for Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci: Antisepsis, Pseudobacteremia, and Therapy of Patients

David Souvenir, Donald E. Anderson, Samuel Palpant et al. · Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 1998 · 287 citations · Full text

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Impact of Blood Cultures Drawn by Phlebotomy on Contamination Rates and Health Care Costs in a Hospital Emergency Department

Rita M. Gander, Linda Byrd, Michael DeCrescenzo et al. · Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 2009 · 190 citations · Full text

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Hospital-Acquired, Laboratory-Confirmed Bloodstream Infection: Increased Hospital Stay and Direct Costs

Giovanni Battista Orsi, Lidia Di Stefano, Norman Noah · Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology · 2002 · 165 citations

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