Evaluating prevalence, incidence rates and mortality attributable to antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections and potential biases caused by underuse of blood culture in Wahidin Hospital, a tertiary-care hospital in South Sulawesi, Indonesia

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection (ARBI) is an infection caused by bacteria that can stop antibiotic from working against it. This causes people to be sick for longer and increases death risk. Researchers regularly analyze data of bacteria growth by blood culture test. However, in developing countries, those data are rarely analyzed and underuse of blood culture tests could bias the results. I will evaluate ARBI situation in a tertiary-care hospital in 2015-2018 in Sulawesi, Indonesia. I will analyze large data sets and report parameters representing ARBI situation. Using antibiotic prescription data, I will also evaluate whether the blood culture test is used as often and within the timing as it is recommended and whether the underuse of blood culture test led to ARBI reports bias. The study results will improve our standings on ARBI and could be used to inform healthcare workers and policymakers for actions against ARBI.