Community-Onset Bloodstream Infection during the ‘After Hours’ Is not Associated with an increased Risk for Death | Zendy

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Community-Onset Bloodstream Infection during the ‘After Hours’ Is not Associated with an increased Risk for Death

Author(s) -

Kevin B. Laupland,

Pamela Kibsey,

John C. Galbraith

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

canadian journal of infectious diseases and medical microbiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.634

H-Index - 38

eISSN - 1918-1493

pISSN - 1712-9532

DOI - 10.1155/2012/931737

Subject(s) - medicine , evening , logistic regression , bloodstream infection , case fatality rate , names of the days of the week , blood culture , weekend effect , pediatrics , mortality rate , emergency medicine , demography , epidemiology , antibiotics , linguistics , philosophy , physics , astronomy , sociology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

Patients admitted to hospital during the 'after hours' (weekends and evenings) may be at increased risk for adverse outcome. The objective of the present study was to assess whether community-onset bloodstream infections presenting in the after hours are associated with death.

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