Your Messages Inbox
Most Viewed Abstracts
1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians 2. Use of Antiemetic Agents in Acute Gastroenteritis 3. 2008 Exclusive Survey—Earnings: Good news for primary care income 4. Medicare pay-for-reporting effort draws fire from frustrated doctors 5. Debunking Myths in the US Healthcare System
Your Article Summary
See Latest ArticlesSwab Cultures for Diagnosing Wound Infections: A Literature Review and Clinical Guideline
Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing, 07/22/09
Bonham PA – Swab culture is the most frequently employed method of confirming wound infection in the United States, but a standardized procedure is lacking. Properly performed swab cultures provide useful data to augment diagnostic and therapeutic decision making. The specific aim of the review is to propose a research–based guideline to perform swab cultures as a basis to improve clinical practice and encourage research to establish the reliability and validity of the swab technique.
Related Articles
Efficacy of a swab transport system in maintaining long-term viability of Staphylococcus aureus
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 10/22/09
Relevance Score: 66%
Neisseria gonorrhoeae Multi-Antigen Sequence Typing using non-cultured clinical specimens
Sexually Transmitted Infections, 10/22/09
Relevance Score: 65%
Problems of Quality and Equity in Pain Management: Exploring the Role of Biomedical Culture
Pain Medicine, 10/14/09
Relevance Score: 46%
Eastern collectivist culture may buffer against depression
USA Today, 10/29/09
Relevance Score: 45%
Engagement in cultural activities and cause-specific mortality: Prospective cohort study
Preventive Medicine, 10/20/09
Relevance Score: 45%
Today in Derm Infectious Disease...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Primary Skin Abscesses Are Mainly Caused by Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Positive Staphylococcus aureus Strains
Dermatology, 12/04/09
Spider bite lesions are usually diagnosed as skin and soft-tissue infections
The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 12/01/09
Comparison between PAS and GMS stains for the diagnosis of onychomycosis
Journal of Cutaneous Pathology, 11/30/09
Today in Diagnostics...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Point-of-Care Testing for Pandemic Influenza and Biothreats
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 12/04/09
A systematic review of serologic tests in the diagnosis of necrotizing enterocolitis
Journal of Pediatric Surgery, 12/04/09
Interferon-[gamma] release assays: new diagnostic tests for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection, and their use in children
Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 12/04/09
Article Search
Sponsor