AUG 25, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
A matter of time: impact of time to first follow-up blood cultures in patients with candidemia and Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia from a retrospective cohort
BMC Infectious Diseases
A retrospective cohort study with clear associations between timing of follow-up blood cultures and outcomes (length of treatment, time to culture clearance, and survival in Cox regression), but limited by single-centre design, retrospective conduct, and modest effect sizes that require confirmation in prospective studies.
Reported
Sample size (SAB)217
Sample size (candidemia)138