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Impact of Pre-Analytical Time on the Recovery of Pathogens from Blood Cultures: Results from a Large Retrospective Survey.
2017
Background Prompt identification of bloodstream pathogens is essential for optimal management of patients. Significant changes in analytical methods have improved the turnaround time for laboratory diagnosis. Less attention has been paid to the time elapsing from blood collection to incubation and to its potential effect on recovery of pathogens. We evaluated the performance of blood cultures collected under typical hospital conditions in relation to the length of their pre-analytical time. Methods We carried out a large retrospective study including 50,955 blood cultures collected, over a 30-month period, from 7,035 adult septic patients. Cultures were accepted by the laboratory only durin…
Where are patients missed in the tuberculosis diagnostic cascade? A prospective cohort study in Ghana.
2020
BackgroundGhana's national prevalence survey showed higher than expected tuberculosis (TB) prevalence, indicating that many people with TB are not identified and treated. This study aimed to identify gaps in the TB diagnostic cascade prior to starting treatment.MethodsA prospective cohort study was conducted in urban and rural health facilities in south-east Ghana. Consecutive patients routinely identified as needing a TB test were followed up for two months to find out if sputum was submitted and/or treatment started. The causal effect of health facility location on submitting sputum was assessed before risk factors were investigated using logistic regression.ResultsA total of 428 persons …
Effects of Suboptimally Presented Erotic Pictures on Moral Judgments: A Cross-Cultural Comparison.
2015
Previous research has identified a set of core factors that influence moral judgments. The present study addresses the interplay between moral judgments and four factors: (a) incidental affects, (b) sociocultural context, (c) type of dilemma, and (d) participant’s sex. We asked participants in two different countries (Colombia and Spain) to judge the acceptability of actions in response to personal and impersonal moral dilemmas. Before each dilemma an affective prime (erotic, pleasant or neutral pictures) was presented suboptimally. Our results show that: a) relative to neutral priming, erotic primes increase the acceptance of harm for a greater good (i.e., more utilitarian judgments), b) r…
Reference set of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical strains: A tool for research and product development
2018
TheMycobacterium tuberculosiscomplex (MTBC) causes tuberculosis (TB) in humans and various other mammals. The human-adapted members of the MTBC comprise seven phylogenetic lineages that differ in their geographical distribution. There is growing evidence that this phylogenetic diversity modulates the outcome of TB infection and disease. For decades, TB research and development has focused on the two canonical MTBC reference strains H37Rv and Erdman, both of which belong to Lineage 4. Relying on only a few laboratory-adapted strains can be misleading as study results might not be directly transferrable to clinical settings where patients are infected with a diverse array of strains, includin…
002 Impact of diverting general practitioner's after-hours calls to emergency medical dispatch centers on time delays and acute revascularization pro…
2012
Jean Ferrieres [Orateur] (1), Guy Berkenboom (2), Zdenek Coufal (3), Stefan James (4), Attila MohaCsi (5), Gregory Pavlides (6), Kirsi Norrbacka (7), Magali Sartral (8), Marie-Ange Paget (8), Molly Tomlin (9), Uwe Zeymer (10) (1) CHU Rangueil, Cardiologie B, Toulouse, France – (2) ULB Erasme University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Brussels, Belgium – (3) Batova Krajska Nemocnice Zlin, Department of Cardiology, Zlin, Republique Tcheque – (4) Uppsala University Hospital, Dept. of Cardiology and Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala, Suede – (5) Gottsegen Institute of Hungarian Cardiology, Budapest, Hungaria – (6) Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Kallithea, Grece – (7) Lilly Research…