TY  - JOUR
T1  - BLood culture collection for suspected bacteremia
AU  - Eckert P, Bayram JD, Omron R
Y1  - 2013/01/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.113517
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 339
EP  - 339
VL  - 309
IS  - 4
N2  - 
To the Editor: In the Rational Clinical Examination article by Dr Coburn and colleagues1 on whether a patient with suspected bacteremia requires blood cultures, a clinical prediction rule developed by Shapiro et al2 was highlighted as one of the few useful means of detecting patients with a low likelihood of bloodstream infection. The article reported that this rule has a negative likelihood ratio of 0.08 (95% CI, 0.04-0.17) for the presence of bacteremia. Therefore, the rule may allow clinicians to safely avoid blood cultures when applied accurately to patients with suspected infection and a low pretest probability of bacteremia.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.113517
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.113517
ER  -