Do all Emergency Room Patients With Influenza-like Symptoms Need Blood Cultures? A Retrospective Cohort Study of 2 Annual Influenza Seasons.

Ehrhard, Simone; Herren, Lukas; Ricklin, Meret E; Suter-Riniker, Franziska; Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K; Hautz, Wolf; Müller, Martin; Jent, Philipp (2024). Do all Emergency Room Patients With Influenza-like Symptoms Need Blood Cultures? A Retrospective Cohort Study of 2 Annual Influenza Seasons. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 11(5) Oxford University Press 10.1093/ofid/ofae242

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In this retrospective cohort study, we evaluated risk factors for bacteremia in emergency department patients presenting with influenza-like symptoms during influenza epidemic seasons. In patients without fever, chronic heart or chronic liver disease, blood culture collection might be omitted.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute for Infectious Diseases > Research
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology (DINA) > University Emergency Center
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Infectiology
04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute for Infectious Diseases
04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute for Infectious Diseases > Clinical Microbiology

UniBE Contributor:

Ehrhard, Simone, Ricklin, Meret Elisabeth, Suter, Franziska Marta, Exadaktylos, Aristomenis, Hautz, Wolf, Müller, Martin (B), Jent, Philipp

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health
500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology

ISSN:

2328-8957

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pubmed Import

Date Deposited:

22 May 2024 14:57

Last Modified:

23 May 2024 03:42

Publisher DOI:

10.1093/ofid/ofae242

PubMed ID:

38770207

Uncontrolled Keywords:

COVID-19 bacteremia diagnostic stewardship flu influenza

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/196945

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/196945

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