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Patients with Bacteremia Dying Before Notification of Positive Blood Cultures: A 3-year Clinical Study

Gitte Pedersen Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aalborg Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark; Department of Medicine B, Aalborg Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
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Henrik Carl Schønheyder Department of Clinical Microbiology, Aalborg Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark
Pages 169-173 | Received 22 Jul 1996, Accepted 12 Dec 1996, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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Keiju S. K. Kontula, Kirsi Skogberg, Jukka Ollgren, Asko Järvinen & Outi Lyytikäinen. (2016) Early deaths in bloodstream infections: a population-based case series. Infectious Diseases 48:5, pages 379-385.
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Kim O Gradel, Jenny Dahl Knudsen, Magnus Arpi, Christian Østergaard, Henrik C Schønheyder & Mette Søgaard. (2012) Classification of positive blood cultures: computer algorithms versus physicians' assessment - development of tools for surveillance of bloodstream infection prognosis using population-based laboratory databases. BMC Medical Research Methodology 12:1.
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K. O. Gradel, H. C. Schønheyder, L. Pedersen, R. W. Thomsen, M. Nørgaard & H. Nielsen. (2006) Incidence and prognosis of nontyphoid Salmonella bacteraemia in Denmark: a 10-year county-based follow-up study. European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 25:3, pages 151-158.
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G. Pedersen, H.C. Schønheyder & H.T. Sørensen. (2003) Source of infection and other factors associated with case fatality in community-acquired bacteremia—a Danish population-based cohort study from 1992 to 1997. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 9:8, pages 793-802.
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