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Correlation between mass and volume of collected blood with positivity of blood cultures

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2015

Year

Lariessa Neves, Alexandre R. Marra, Thiago Zinsly Sampaio Camargo, Maura Cristina dos Santos, Flávia Zulin, Patrícia Candido da Silva, Natália Ariede de Moura, Elivane da Silva Victor, Jacyr Pasternak, Oscar Fernando Pavão dos Santos,
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Abstract

Our study was a quality improvement project that showed that microbiology laboratories can use the weight of blood culture bottles to determine if appropriate volume has been collected to improve the diagnosis of BSI.

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