Association between time to appropriate antimicrobial treatment and 30-day mortality in patients with bloodstream infections: a retrospective cohort study.
Jasper Van HeuverswynJohn Karlsson ValikSuzanne Desirée van der WerffPontus HedbergChristian GiskePontus NauclérPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)
Delays in appropriate antimicrobial treatment were associated with increased 30-day mortality after 12 hours from blood culture collection, but not at 1, 3, and 6 hours, in BSI. These results indicate a benchmark for providing rapid microbiological diagnostics of blood cultures.