The Diagnostic Efficacy for Combination of Nurse-Assesed Food Consumptions and Shaking Chills in Predicting Bacteremia at the Time of Blood Culture

Characteristics of patients Acknowledgement We thank Dr. H. Honda for discussion, Ms. K. Takigawa for collection of data, and Ms. T. Oguri for providing infectious disease consultation on the pathogenicity of organism. #1. Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan #2. Department of Internal Medicine, Nerima General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan #3. Department of General Medicine, Oizumi Health Cooperative Hospital, Tokyo, Japan #4. Clinical Research Support Center, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan #5. Department of General Internal Medicine, Shonan Kamakura Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan #6. Consultant of Sakura Seiki Co Ltd, Japan #7. Department of Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA #8. Department of Cardiology, Juntendo University Nerima Hospital, Tokyo, Japan The Diagnostic Efficacy for Combination of Nurse-assessed Food Consumptions and Shaking Chills in Predicting Bacteremia at The Time of Blood Culture Takayuki Komatsu, MD, PhD#1, Erika Takahashi, MD#1 Kentaro Mishima, MD#1, Takeo Toyoda, MD, PhD#2 Fumihiro Saitoh, MD#3, Joe Matsuoka, PhD#4 Manabu Sugita, MD, PhD#1 Joel Branch, MD#5, Makoto Aoki, MD#6 Lawrence M Tierney Jr, MD#7 and Kenji Inoue MD, PhD#8