Retrospective study

duration : collect data from past 2 years ( december 2019 until December 2021 )
inclusion criteria :

  • age more than 3 months
  • patient admitted to the hospital through ER
  • febrile at the time of ED presentation
  • inflammatory markers ( CRP and/or PCT) collected

exclusion criteria :

  • Cerebral Palsy patients
  • known chronic illness
  • critically ill or admitted to picu
  • age less than 3 months
  • afebrile patients
    hypothesis: frequent unnecessary blood culture collection at ED

objectives :
-(primary)frequency and indication of blood culture , identification of the organism isolated from positive blood culture
-(secondary) the impact of unnecessary blood culture collection on the following :
-cost effectiveness practice
-length of stay at the hospital
-family/social burden
-abuse of antibiotics
-relation to the admission diagnosis

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