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As rapid administration of appropriate antimicrobials is crucial to positive patient outcomes, clinical alternatives to slow phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) must be developed. We developed an automated real-time, colorimetric assay (ChroMIC) that phenotypically determines minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) directly from positive blood culture. Gram-negative bacteria within positive blood cultures from 83 patients were directly analyzed with ChroMIC. Both ChroMIC MICs and the much slower VITEK 2 MICs for each of seven antibiotics were compared to broth microdilution (BMD). Direct-from-blood-culture ChroMIC MICs were obtained without the ~18-hour growth and isolation steps needed to obtain both VITEK 2 and BMD MICs. ChroMIC assays yielded &gt;90% categorical and essential agreement within 7 h from the start of the experiment and within 4 h of initial growth detection. ChroMIC minor, major, and very major errors were all comparable to, or in the case of VMEs, better than, those from VITEK 2 ASTs\u2014the latter being performed only after an additional ~18-hour subculturing delay. As these patient blood samples were run in parallel with VITEK 2 MICs, a retrospective impact analysis on patient care suggests that ChroMIC could have facilitated faster therapeutic decision-making in nearly all cases, saving an average of &gt;35 and &gt;43 h for antimicrobial escalation and de-escalation, respectively, compared to VITEK 2.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>IMPORTANCE<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The often sluggish pace of phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), relative to sepsis progression, limits flexibility in altering patient treatment. 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