Diagnostic performance of physician gestalt for bacteremia in patients in the process of being admitted with suspected infection.

Kotaro FujiiToshihiko TakadaTsukasa KamitaniTakuya AokiTaro TakeshimaMasataka KudoSho SasakiTetsuhiro YanoYu YagiYasuhiro TsuchidoHideyuki ItohShunichi FukuharaYosuke Yamamoto

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)

Physician gestalt was safer, but less efficient, than existing models. Clinical prediction models could help reduce the overuse of blood cultures.

Keyphrases

emergency department
primary care
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
peritoneal dialysis
prognostic factors
pulmonary embolism
multidrug resistant