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.

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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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