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| Title |
Quality of blood culture testing - a survey in intensive care units and microbiological laboratories across four European countries
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Critical Care, October 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/cc13074 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Roland PH Schmitz, Peter M Keller, Michael Baier, Stefan Hagel, Mathias W Pletz, Frank M Brunkhorst |
| Abstract |
Blood culture (BC) testing before initiation of antimicrobial therapy is recommended as a standard of care in international sepsis guidelines and has been shown to reduce intensive care unit (ICU) stay, antibiotic use, and costs in hospitalized patients. Whereas microbiological laboratory practice has been highly standardized, shortfalls in the preanalytic procedures in the ICU (that is indication, time-to-incubation, blood volume and numbers of BC sets) have a significant effect on the diagnostic yield. The objective of this study was to gain insights into current practices regarding BC testing in intensive care units. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 67% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 81 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| South Africa | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 78 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 11 | 14% |
| Other | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 15 | 19% |
| Unknown | 21 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 44% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 3 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 3 | 4% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 9% |
| Unknown | 25 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 January 2023.
All research outputs
#3,274,762
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Critical Care
#2,656
of 6,554 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,301
of 224,366 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Critical Care
#27
of 100 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,647 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 6,554 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 59% of its peers.
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