Impact of decreasing cerebrospinal fluid enterovirus PCR turnaround time on costs and management of children with suspected enterovirus meningitis

To estimate the impact of implementing in-hospital enterovirus (EV) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) with same-day turn-around-time (TAT) on length-of-stay (LOS), antibiotic use and on cost per patient with suspected EV meningitis, compared with testing at an outs...

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Published in:Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis
Main Authors: Alghounaim, Mohammad, Caya, Chelsea, Cho, MinGi, Beltempo, Marc, Yansouni, Cedric P., Dendukuri, Nandini, Papenburg, Jesse
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7087931/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31933018
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10096-019-03799-2
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