Publications by authors named "Rianna Evans"
Objectives: To determine predictors of parenteral antibiotic duration and the association between parenteral treatment duration and relapses in infants <3 months with bacteraemic urinary tract infection (UTI).
Design: Multicentre retrospective cohort study.
Setting: Eleven healthcare institutions across the USA.
Importance: Blood cultures are often obtained as part of the evaluation of infants with fever and these infants are typically observed until their cultures are determined to have no growth. However, the time to positivity of blood culture results in this population is not known.
Objective: To determine the time to positivity of blood culture results in febrile infants admitted to a general inpatient unit.
Objective: To determine the time to detection (TTD) of positive results on blood, urine, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cultures taken during the evaluation for serious bacterial infection (SBI) in otherwise healthy infants aged 0 to 90 days.
Methods: This study was a retrospective chart review of infants aged 0 to 90 days with positive blood, urine, or CSF cultures drawn during evaluation for SBI in the emergency department or inpatient setting. The TTD of positive culture results, reason for testing, and age of the infant were recorded.
Background: Fever in infants is a common clinical dilemma. The objective of this study was to present data from hospital systems across the northeast, southeast, mid-west, and western United States to identify the pathogens causing bacteremia in febrile infants admitted to general care units.
Methods: This was a retrospective review of positive blood culture results in febrile infants aged ≤90 days admitted to a general care unit across 6 hospital systems.