Antimicrobial use in patients with positive intravascular catheter cultures: a six-month prospective survey in a teaching hospital
| Autor: | Paola Jubert, Jordi Rello, Jordi Vallés, Ferran Segura, Dionisia Fontanals |
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| Předmět: |
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology Psychological intervention Unnecessary Procedures Teaching hospital Catheters Indwelling Sepsis Internal medicine Catheterization Peripheral medicine Humans Blood culture In patient Prospective Studies Hospitals Teaching Intensive care medicine Prospective survey Cross Infection Inpatients Medical Errors medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Medical record Anti-Bacterial Agents Catheter Infectious Diseases Spain business Complication |
| Zdroj: | Europe PubMed Central Scopus-Elsevier |
| Popis: | Review of medical records revealed that, of 190 intravascular catheters sent for culture during the study period, 50 were positive. Of these 50, 11 (22%) were sent for culture as a routine procedure without special clinical indications. Of the remaining 39 cultures, only 11 (28%) had clinical impact in the patient's management. Ten of the 50 therapeutic interventions were inappropriate. Restricting cultures to patients who may have catheter-related infection is likely to lead to significant cost savings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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