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

Published:2024-04-26 Issue:5 Volume:11 Page:
ISSN:2328-8957
Container-title:Open Forum Infectious Diseases
language:en
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Author:

Ehrhard Simone¹^ORCID,Herren Lukas¹,Ricklin Meret E¹,Suter-Riniker Franziska²,Exadaktylos Aristomenis K¹,Hautz Wolf¹,Müller Martin¹,Jent Philipp³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern , Bern , Switzerland

2. Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern , Bern , Switzerland

3. Department of Infectious Diseases, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern , Bern , Switzerland

Abstract

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.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Link

https://academic.oup.com/ofid/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/ofid/ofae242/57357366/ofae242.pdf

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