Blood Cultures Versus Respiratory Cultures: 2 Different Views of Pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Choice of empiric therapy for pneumonia depends on risk for antimicrobial resistance. Models to predict resistance are derived from blood and respiratory culture results. We compared these results to understand if organisms and resistance patterns differed by site. We also compared characteristics and outcomes of patients with positive cultures by site.

Methods

We studied adult patients discharged from 177 US hospitals from July 2010 through June 2015, with principal diagnoses of pneumonia, or principal diagnoses of respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome, respiratory arrest, or sepsis with a secondary diagnosis of pneumonia, and who had blood or respiratory cultures performed. Demographics, treatment, microbiologic results, and outcomes were exam

SUBMITTER: Haessler S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7882190 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature