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Johns Hopkins Medicine

Urine

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A federally funded Johns Hopkins Medicine-led multicenter study suggests that standardizing what defines blood culture contamination could increase accuracy of diagnoses, optimize treatments, avoid unnecessary medications and improve patient outcomes.

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