Do all Emergency Room Patients With Influenza-like Symptoms Need Blood Cultures? A Retrospective Cohort Study of 2 Annual Influenza Seasons.
Open Forum Infect Dis
; 11(5): ofae242, 2024 May.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38770207
ABSTRACT
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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En
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Open Forum Infect Dis
Year:
2024
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Article
Affiliation country:
Switzerland