TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gulia, Jyoti
AU  - Ly, Tam
AU  - Pyrgos, Vasilios
AU  - Shoham, Shmuel
AU  - Waga, Masashi
TI  - Impact upon clinical outcomes of translation of PNA FISH-generated laboratory data from the clinical microbiology bench to bedside in real time
SN  - 1176-6336
PY  - 2008///
KW  - IN PROCESS -- NOT YET INDEXED
KW  - MedStar Washington Hospital Center
KW  - Medicine/Infectious Diseases
KW  - Journal Article
N2  - Fluorescence in situ hybridization using peptide nucleic acid probes (PNA-FISH) differentiates Staphylococcus aureus from other Gram-positive-cocci in clusters (GPCC). 101/202 patients with GPCC+ blood cultures were randomly assigned to clinician-notification of PNA FISH results. Notification was associated with reduced mortality (8% vs.17%, p = 0.05), further antibiotic use (median -2.5 days, p = 0.01), and trended toward reduced hospital stay and charges
ER  -