Do you obtain routine blood cultures in a non-immunocompromised patient with community-acquired pneumonia who does not meet criteria for severe CAP?
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Do you obtain routine blood cultures in a non-immunocompromised patient with community-acquired pneumonia who does not meet criteria for severe CAP?
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Infectious Disease · Christiana Care Health Syst
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Fabre et al., PMID 31942949, categorizes "non-severe community-acquired pneumonia" as low yield for bacteremia and therefore less critical and potentially wasteful/poor stewardship to obtain blood cultures, however do note that severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) falls into a moderate pre-test...
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