The clinical usefulness of an ongoing bacteremia surveillance program.
Surveillance of bacteremic patients within one week of the detection of a positive blood culture provides information of great clinical utility for relatively little effort. In this report one year's experience is reviewed to illustrate that an individual hospital's experience with bacteremia may diverge from national norms. Such reviews may also detect recurring errors in medical judgment which may be corrected through proper education.
D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D006801:Humans; D007710:Klebsiella Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D007711:Klebsiella pneumoniae; D009519:New York City; D011159:Population Surveillance; D018805:Sepsis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology