Analysis of blood culture practices in multicenter university-affiliated hospitals in Korea: A retrospective study focused on procedural optimization

• Sae Am Song ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sae Am Song

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

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea

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• Sunggyun Park,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea

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• Kwangsook Woo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea

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• Yu Kyung Kim,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Pathology, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

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• Jung-ah Kim,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Seoul Hospital, Seoul, Korea

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• Sunjoo Kim

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sjkim8239@hanmail.net

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Gyeongsang National University College of Medicine, Jinju, Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8099-8891

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