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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: study on the rate of blood culture contamination in emergency department, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
  name:
    name part: Azizul Fadzli Wan Jusoh @ Ab. Rahim
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Universiti Sains Malaysia
    name part: Pusat Pengajian Sains Perubatan
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 137 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm.
  abstract: Blood culture is a vital investigation with major implication for the diagnosis of serious infection and selection of appropriate anti-microbial therapy. A positive blood culture can be the first step in reaching the definitive diagnosis in a patient with presumed sepsis. Unfortunately, false positives can occur due to contamination. As such, the onus is on the nursing and medical staffs to be responsible for the safe and effective blood sampling, especially in an ED setting, where accurate blood sampling result can have a critical, imperative impact on the direction on patient management. Blood culture contamination is defined as the growth of bacteria in the blood culture bottle that is not present in the patients blood. It is a common phenomenon. While target rates for contamination have been set at 2 to 3%, in reality, the rate of blood culture contamination varies between departments and hospitals. In UK, souvenir et al reveals that contamination of blood cultures is a common problem with contamination rates varying between 2% and more than 6%. In the emergency department of Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM), the annual positive blood culture rates fluctuated between 9.5-40.8%. Out of these, contaminated samples account for 2.7-14.3% of all positive cultures. Most of these false positive results were caused by endogenous human microbial flora. As a result, strict skin preparation and good venepuncture technique are important determinants in reducing the rate of contamination. This is cross- sectional study. All blood culture samplings who meet the inclusion criteria (and not meeting any exclusion criteria) were collected by various health care professional in ED HUSM. Patients venous bloods were obtained according to their current practice of blood culture sampling. The person who obtains the blood culture will fill up the study document. For each month, the total number of cultures yielding organisms considered being contaminants (from a predefined lis…
  table of contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Research questions/ objective/ hypothesis -- 4. Research methodology -- 5. Result -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Limitations of study -- 8. Recommendations -- 9. Conclusions
  note: Dr. Azizul Fadzli Wan Jusoh @ Ab. Rahim
  note: Thesis (Degree of Master Of Medicine) - Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2014
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-118)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Universiti Sains Malaysia
    topic: Dissertations
  subject:
    topic: Blood
    topic: Examination
  subject:
    topic: Dissertations, Academic
  subject:
    topic: Health Personnel
  subject:
    topic: Hematologic Tests
    topic: methods
  classification: RB145 .A95 2014
  classification: QY 400 A995s 2014
  record info:
    record content source: UniSZA
    record creation date: 140609
    record change date: 20210208093000.0
    record identifier: 0000086655