Should Every Patient Admitted for a Community-acquired Pneumonia Get Blood Cultures to Detect Bacteremia?

Synopsis: This retrospective analysis identified the proportion of patients with afebrile bacteremia when admitted for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and investigated negative and positive predictors of bacteremia in afebrile CAP patients. A significant proportion of afebrile patients admitted for CAP was bacteremic and had increased mortality when compared with febrile bacteremic patients or nonfebrile nonbacteremic patients.
Source: Clinical Pulmonary Medicine - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: Pulmonary Trends Source Type: research