Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 393-400 , November 2005

Do Emergency Department Blood Cultures Change Practice in Patients With Pneumonia?

Received 17 February 2005 ,Revised 9 May 2005 ,Accepted 23 May 2005.

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 Supervising editor: Gregory J. Moran, MDAuthor contributions: MK, DWB, SBW, REW, and NIS conceived the trial and created the trial design. MK, RR, and NIS were responsible for data collection, MK, DWB, and NIS analyzed the data. SBW assisted with data analysis. MK, DWB, and NIS prepared the manuscript. All authors reviewed and support it. All authors take responsibility for the paper as a whole.Funding and support: Supported in part by a Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Medical Student Grant.Presented at the American College of Emergency Physicians, October 2004, San Francisco, California; and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine, April 2004, Shrewsbury, MA.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(05)00716-X

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2005.05.025

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 46, Issue 5 , Pages 393-400 , November 2005

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