# Capacity and utilization of blood culture in two referral hospitals in Indonesia and Thailand
> Teerawattanasook N.

URL kanonis: https://discover.unhas.ac.id/publications/capacity-and-utilization-of-blood-culture-in-two-referral-hospitals-in-indonesia
Jurnal / Konferensi: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Tahun terbit: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.17-0193
ISSN: 00029637
Kuartil SJR: Q2
Citations: 27

## Authors
- Teerawattanasook N.

## Abstract
It is generally recommended that sepsis patients should have at least two blood cultures obtained before antimicrobial therapy. From 1995 to 2015, the number of blood cultures taken each year in a 1,100-bed public referral hospital in Ubon Ratchathani northeast Thailand rose from 5,235 to 56,719, whereas the number received in an 840-bed referral public hospital in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, in 2015 was 2,779. The proportion of patients sampled for blood cultures out of all inpatients in South Sulawesi in 2015 (9%; 2,779/30,593) was lower than that in Ubon Ratchathani in 2003 (13%; 8,707/66,515), at a time when health expenditure per capita in the two countries was comparable. Under-use of bacterial cultures may lead to an underestimate and underreporting of the incidence of antimicrobial-resistant infections. Raising capacity and utilization of clinical microbiology laboratories in developing countries, at least at sentinel hospitals, to monitor the antimicrobial resistance situation should be prioritized.

## Keywords
- Referral
- Medicine
- Blood culture
- Per capita
- Incidence (geometry)
- Antimicrobial
- Public health
- Environmental health
- Emergency medicine
- Family medicine
- Population
- Nursing
- Antibiotics
- Microbiology
- Biology
- Physics
- Optics

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