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Area of Science:

  • Clinical Medicine
  • Diagnostic Testing
  • Prognostic Biomarkers

Background:

  • Hospitalized patients often undergo diagnostic testing to assess their condition.
  • Blood cultures and troponin assays are commonly used to detect infections and cardiac injury, respectively.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the clinical predictive value of requesting blood cultures and high-sensitivity troponin assays (hscTnT).
  • To determine the association between these tests and 30-day in-hospital mortality.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of 77,566 medical admissions from 2011-2020.
  • Logistic regression models were used to predict 30-day mortality based on blood culture and hscTnT requests and results.
  • Poisson regression analyzed the relationship between length of stay and service utilization.

Main Results:

  • Patients with requests for both blood cultures and hscTnT had a 30-day mortality of 20.9%, compared to 8.9% for blood cultures alone and 2.3% for neither.
  • Both blood culture (OR 3.93) and hscTnT requests (OR 4.58) were significant independent predictors of mortality.

Conclusions:

  • The request for blood cultures and hscTnT assays are indicative of patients with worse prognoses.
  • These tests serve as valuable prognostic markers for predicting adverse outcomes in hospitalized individuals.