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positive culture

A culture that reveals the suspected organism.

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Fok and colleagues (2013) obtained urine culture by catheterization on the day of surgery and demonstrated positive cultures in 9.5% of patients.

Does the Method of Urine Collection Affect Culture Results And Preoperative Antibiotics in Patients Undergoing Pelvic Organ Prolapse Surgery?

The negative predictive value for any positive culture in a pediatric specimen was 95.2%, and the negative predictive value for positive cultures containing bacterial CFUs of 100 000 or more was 100%.

The Accuracy of the Sysmex UF-1000i in Urine Bacterial Detection Compared With the Standard Urine Analysis and Culture

In many ways, franchise organizations are even more dependent upon a positive culture than other business models.

Creating a Positive Franchise Culture: Culture can be defined as shared beliefs within an organization. In the best organization cultures, these beliefs lead franchise team members to behave in ways that benefit the entire franchise group

The secondary objectives were to evaluate the sterility of routine practices in terms of drug preparation and storage, and to determine the factors associated with a positive culture result.

Bacterial Contamination of Anaesthetic and Vasopressor Drugs in the Operating Theatres./Ameliyathanelerde Anestetik ve Vazopressor Ilaclarin Bakteriyel Kontaminasyonu

We concluded that in the absence of a foreign body and with at least a year from the last known positive culture, patients with known MRSA should be rescreened and, if negative on an active surveillance culture, should be removed from contact precautions.

When to discontinue contact precautions for patients with MRSA

Two of the infected patients died at 10 days and 12 weeks after positive culture, respectively; it was unclear whether the deaths were related to the infections.

Fungal bloodstream infections associated with a compounded intravenous medication at an outpatient oncology clinic--New York City, 2016

For example, of all the survey responses to the Best Place to Work question, Positive Culture ranked highest at 93%: it was followed by Great Coworkers 90%, Supportive Environment 89%, Effective Leadership 85%, Meaningful Work 82%, Challenging Work 75%, and Professional Development 73%.

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They stressed the benefits of a positive culture and the support provided through personal and leadership development programs.

Hexpol Compounding campus listed among 2016 top NE Ohio workplaces

It is of significant importance to inculcate the positive culture and the state has to start early these cultural activities to enrich the knowledge of youngsters and harness their talents as well as provide them with useful entertainment and excitement activities.

18th children, youngsters cultural festival kicks off

A total of 67 patients had positive culture or PCR results for both species.

Consider F. necrophorum in culture-negative pharyngitis

Receipt of antifungal agents on an empirical basis before a positive culture was not significantly associated with mortality (p>0.05).

Clinical features and outcomes of Candidaemia in cancer patients: Results from Pakistan

Figure 1 shows the number of positive cultures among the study groups, with maximum number of positive culture seen in group III (n = 6) wherein the catheter was allowed in the epidural space for 72 h.

Bacterial colonization of epidural catheters used for short-term postoperative analgesia: a microbiological examination and risk factor analysis