A Retrospective Evaluation of Critical Care Blood Culture Yield – Do Support Services Contribute to the “Weekend Effect”?

• Ben Morton ,

  * E-mail: ben.morton@lstmed.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpoool, United Kingdom, Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Shankara Nagaraja,

  Affiliation Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Andrea Collins,

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpoool, United Kingdom, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Shaun H. Pennington,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpoool, United Kingdom

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• John D. Blakey

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Respiratory Infection Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpoool, United Kingdom, Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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