caa a22 4500 475831985 CHVBK 20180406123842.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s100960050453 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s100960050453 Blood Cultures: Clinical Aspects and Controversies [Elektronische Daten] [J. M. Mylotte, A. Tayara]  During the past two decades, there have been important advances in blood culture methodology. These advances have resulted in earlier detection and identification of pathogens causing bloodstream infections. However, there are many facets of the blood culture as a diagnostic test that are not affected by new culture methods or systems that continue to cause problems with interpretation of results. The objective of this review is to focus on those factors influencing the results of blood cultures that have clinical relevance. Such factors include skin preparation, timing, procurement techniques, volume of blood obtained, number of cultures, anaerobic blood cultures, and contamination. In addition, bacteremia prediction models are discussed and suggestions are provided as to how these models could be of greater clinical use. Blood culture methods and systems are not discussed in this review. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Mylotte J. M. Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, US aut Tayara A. Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, US aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s100960050453 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s100960050453 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mylotte J. M. Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, US aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tayara A. Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, US aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer