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cord-330626-0aidit63	Sepulveda, Jorge	Bacteremia and Blood Culture Utilization during COVID-19 Surge in New York City	2020-07-23		.txt	text/plain	2695	125	47	A surge of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) presenting to New York City hospitals in March 2020 led to a sharp increase in blood culture utilization, which overwhelmed the capacity of automated blood culture instruments. We performed a retrospective cohort analysis of 88,201 blood cultures from 28,011 patients at a multicenter network of hospitals within New York City to evaluate order volume, positivity rate, time to positivity, and etiologies of positive cultures in COVID-19. Clear communication with ordering providers is necessary to prevent overutilization of blood cultures during patient surges, and laboratories should consider shortening the incubation period from 5 days to 4 days, if necessary, to free additional capacity. Frequent ordering of blood cultures for patients with COVID-19 may overwhelm a laboratory's capacity to perform and process these tests, which may negatively impact the overall benefit of testing for the entire medical center.	./cache/cord-330626-0aidit63.txt	./txt/cord-330626-0aidit63.txt