It is customary for hospitals to order routine blood cultures for pneumonia, but are these tests necessary? In this video, AJM editor-in-chief Dr. Joseph S. Alpert discusses “Utility of Blood Cultures in Pneumonia.” The bottomline: this routine test may not be necessary for hospitalized pneumonia patients.
Read the research in the October 2019 issue of the American Journal of Medicine.
Utility of Blood Cultures in Pneumonia