International journal of general medicine 16 2709-2717 2023年
PURPOSE: The effect of antibiotics administered before blood cultures performed in general internal medicine outpatient settings is not well known. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective case-control study including adult patients who ...
International journal of general medicine 16 1295-1302 2023年
PURPOSE: The general internal medicine (GIM) department can be an effective diagnostic coordinator for undiagnosed outpatients. We investigated the contribution of GIM consultations to the diagnosis of patients admitted to specialty departments in...
Jun Shinohara   Shogo Hanai   Jongtak Jung   Kyoung-Ho Song   Mitsunaga Iwata   Teruhiko Terasawa   
Open forum infectious diseases 9(12) ofac568 2022年12月
BACKGROUND: Performing repeat blood cultures after an initial positive culture (ie, follow-up blood cultures [FUBCs]) in patients with gram-negative bacilli (GNB) bacteremia is controversial. We aimed to comprehensively review the association of F...