Objectives Sepsis guidelines recommend obtaining blood cultures before starting anti-
infective therapy in patients with sepsis. However, little is known of how antibiotic treatment …

Background: Administering antimicrobial agents before obtaining blood cultures could
potentially decrease time to treatment and improve outcomes, but it is unclear how this …

Predictors of positive blood cultures in critically ill patients: a retrospective evaluation Page 1
www.cmj.hr Aim To identify predictors of bacteremia in critically ill patients, to evaluate the …

Objective: To assess the timing of appropriate antibiotic therapy as a determinant of
postinfection hospital and ICU lengths of stay in patients with sepsis. Design: Single-center …

BACKGROUND: The primary objective of this study was to compare the characteristics of
culture-positive and culture-negative status in septic patients. We also determined whether …

Sepsis is a common cause of morbidity and death in critically ill patients, and blood culture
samples are often drawn in an effort to identify a responsible pathogen. Blood culture results …

One can falsely assume that it is well known that bacteremia is associated with higher
mortality in sepsis. Only a handful of studies specifically focus on the comparison of culture …

Just over one-third of sepsis patients have positive blood cultures, mainly due to inadequate
sampling volumes (50% of adults have< 1.0 CFU/mL blood) and the prior use of antibiotics …

Severe sepsis is increasingly a cause of death. Rapid and correct initial antimicrobial
treatment reduces mortality. The aetiological agent (s) cannot always be found in blood …

Background and purpose Blood culture is important for the diagnosis of sepsis, but it is
sometimes difficult to differentiate true bacteremia from pseudobacteremia. This study …