Blood Test Order and Culture Contamination

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

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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