Analysis of strategies to improve cost e
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Oren Zwang; Richard K. Albert
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Approximately 90% of all blood cultures grow no organisms (ie, are true negatives), and 5% are thought to represent contaminants (ie, are false positives). The cost effectiveness of blood cultures could therefore be improved by developing rules that safely decreased the n