Diagnostic performance of the Sputum Gram Stain in predicting sputum culture results for critically ill pediatric patients with pneumonia

• Main Authors: Wun-Yan Huang (Author), Ming-Sheng Lee (Author), Liang-Mei Lin (Author), Yi-Chen Liu (Author)
• פורמט: ספר
• יצא לאור: Elsevier, 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• נושאים: article
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Background: The sputum Gram stain is an inexpensive, rapid, and convenient laboratory method that predicts the bacterial pathogens in patients with pneumonia. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of this method in predicting sputum culture results for critically ill pediatric pati...