Impact of hourly emergency department patient volume on blood culture contamination and diagnostic yield.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on March 20, 2013

Authors

Schuyler Halverson1, Preeti N Malani, Duane W Newton, Andrea Habicht, Kenneth Vander Have, John G Younger

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School and Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

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