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Blood cultures should be cut in EDs

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Guidelines on targeted use of blood cultures are needed to avoid wasting resources, according experience in one emergency department in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.Doctors there found only four instances over two years’ retrospective review when blood cultures directly influenced patient management, for which empirical costs for consumables alone amounted to …

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