Sentence examples for microbiological documentation and from inspiring English sources

Among them, 13 had endocarditis without microbiological documentation and 4 had no information about valve culture.

Blood cultures possitives, microbiological documentation and combination of antibiotic therapy were independent factors associated with de-escalation therapy.

Among them, 17 (37%) patients had microbiological documentation and 3 (6.7%) patients had aspiration pneumonia.

During the study period, 162 patients were admitted to the emergency room with severe sepsis; 79 (49%) had microbiological documentation, and were included in this study.

Although efficacy of the primary endpoint of 28-day all-cause mortality was not shown, treatment benefit in a subset of patients with pneumonia with microbiological documentation and not receiving heparin within 24 hours prior to and/or during study drug infusion was observed in post hoc analysis.

We reviewed the total number of microbiological samples collected in three Belgian intensive care units (ICU) in 2009 2010, and we described variations in CRBSI rates based on two factors: microbiological documentation rate and CRBSI definition which includes clinical criterion for coagulase-negative Staphylococcus (CNS) episode.

We examined two factors that are known to impact measured CRBSI rates: microbiological documentation rate and definition including clinical criterion influenced by individual local practices.

De-escalation was defined as streamlined antibiotic treatment driven by microbiological documentation, clinical data and the severity-of-illness index achieved by decreasing the number and/or spectrum of antibiotics.

Conclusions: De-escalation is a feasible strategy in critically ill patients admitted to the ICU with microbiological documentation, blood cultures positive and those with combination of antibiotic therapy.

Introduction The lack of a patent source of infection and microbiological documentation is not uncommon during the first 24 h management of a septic shock, raising the possibility of non-infectious causes.

Interestingly, PCT values higher than this threshold were observed in a minority of patients with FUO, suggesting that these FE may have been due to deep-seated bacterial infections with lacking clinical and microbiological documentation.