Evaluatıon of Qualıty Assurance Indıcators and Contamınatıon Rate in Blood Culture

Objective: Blood culture are of vital importance in patient follow-up, as they enable the identification and production sepsis causative microorganisms, initiate antibiotic treatment a timely manner reduce mortality morbidity. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate microorganisms grown automated blood microbiology laboratory hospital terms quality indicators.
 Method: from BACTEC-9120 (Becton Dickinson, USA) system samples sent XXX University Medical Microbiology Laboratory were evaluated retrospectively. For purpose, rejection contamination rate for which was requested, result Gram staining-final compliance, number single bottle, growth times after incubation determined. 
 Result: 5037 various clinics. 1.7% these rejected inappropriate samples. stain-final compatibility cultures investigated determined 97.8%. The bottle found be 511. included detected 20.7%, 10.2% considered contaminants. our average breeding time factors examined 30.29 hours.
 Conclusion: As conclusion, there no gold standard distinguish true pathogens contaminant agents cultures.