Evaluation of blood culture epidemiology and efficiency in a large European teaching hospital

• R. S. Nannan Panday ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: R. S. Nannan Panday, S. Wang

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Section Acute Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location VU University Medical Center and Location Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• S. Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: R. S. Nannan Panday, S. Wang

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section Acute Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• P. M. van de Ven,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• T. A. M. Hekker,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• N. Alam,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section Acute Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• P. W. B. Nanayakkara

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: p.nanayakkara@vumc.nl

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section Acute Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1555-3682

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