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Blood Test Order and Culture Contamination

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Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Status

Completed

Conditions

Blood Culture Contamination

Treatments

Other: Blood diversion

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03966534
0177-18-SZMC

Details and patient eligibility

About

A randomized partially controlled study to examine the effect of blood diversion into a heparin lithium tube on the incidence of blood culture contamination.

Enrollment

970 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Age > 18
  • Presence in Emergency Room during extended office hours (0800-2000 on weekdays(
  • Clinical requirement for Blood culture and biochemistry tests from venepuncture

Exclusion criteria

  • None

Trial design

Primary purpose

Prevention

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

970 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group
No Intervention group
Description:
Blood culture obtained as first test after venipuncture and prior to biochemistry test
Diversion Group
Experimental group
Description:
Biochemistry test obtained as first test after venepuncture and prior to blood culture
Treatment:
Other: Blood diversion

Trial contacts and locations

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