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Close cooperation between infectious disease physicians and attending physicians can result in better management and outcome for patients with Staphylococcus.

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1 Close cooperation between infectious disease physicians and attending physicians can result in better management and outcome for patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia  M. Nagao, Y. Iinuma, T. Saito, Y. Matsumura, M. Shirano, A. Matsushima, S. Takakura, Y. Ito, S. Ichiyama  Clinical Microbiology and Infection  Volume 16, Issue 12, Pages (December 2010) DOI: /j x Copyright © 2010 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

2 FIG. 1 Trends of characteristics of consultations (bars) and number of blood cultures obtained (solid line). The number of blood cultures increased annually to 1.7-fold more than that obtained at the beginning of the study period, and the number of consultations also increased by approximately 1.6-fold compared to Growth rate in number of consultations was higher for ‘consultation with attending physicians’ than for ‘significant laboratory results’. Clinical Microbiology and Infection  , DOI: ( /j x) Copyright © 2010 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions

3 FIG. 2 Kaplain–Meier survival curves (at 30 days) for patients in the first period and the second period (Mantel—Cox test: p 0.04). Clinical Microbiology and Infection  , DOI: ( /j x) Copyright © 2010 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases Terms and Conditions


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