Open AccessSome bacteraemias encountered in hospital practice
Author(s) -
Nuala Crowley
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of clinical pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1472-4146
pISSN - 0021-9746
DOI - 10.1136/jcp.23.2.166
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , retrospective cohort study , pediatrics , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , optics , physics
This is a retrospective study of the results of 4,642 blood cultures taken from 2,190 patients from 1960 to 1967 in one London hospital. The results suggested that an increased incidence of bacteraemias at this particular hospital was mainly due to the increase in the number of patients having blood cultures. Some of the bacteraemias were terminal or transient and probably of doubtful clinical significance.
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