Clinical utility of blood cultures drawn from indwelling central venous catheters in hospitalized patients with cancer

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In hospitalized hematology-oncology patients, culture of blood drawn through either the central catheter or peripheral vein shows excellent negative predictive value. Culture of blood drawn through an indwelling central venous catheter has low positive predictive value, apparently less than from a p …
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Authors DesJardin JA;Falagas ME;Ruthazer R;Griffith J;Wawrose D;Schenkein D;Miller K;Snydman DR;;
Journal annals of internal medicine
Year 1999
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10577325
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National Center for Biotechnology Information NCBI NLM MEDLINE humans pubmed abstract nih national institutes of health national library of medicine treatment outcome research support u.s. gov't female male middle aged Comparative Study P.H.S. Retrospective Studies sensitivity and specificity anti-bacterial agents / therapeutic use bacteremia / complications statistics nonparametric predictive value of tests bacteremia / diagnosis* neoplasms / complications catheterization bacteremia / drug therapy neoplasms / microbiology* pmid:10577325 doi:10.7326/0003-4819-131-9-199911020-00002 j a desjardin m e falagas d r snydman blood specimen collection / standards* central venous / standards* fungemia / complications fungemia / diagnosis* fungemia / drug therapy phlebotomy / standards

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