Can the Point-Of-Care Chemistry Test (POCT) Solve the Emergency Department (ED) Crowding? (POCTED)

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Crowding

Treatments: Device: point-of-care chemistry test(POCT) (Piccolo)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01402635

SNUEMS201101

Details and patient eligibility

About

The hypothesis of this study that the Point-Of-Care Chemistry Test (POCT) may shorten Emergency Department (ED) length of stay (LOS).

Full description

ED crowding is one of the most serious problems in ED. POCT has shorter turn-around time compared to centralized laboratory system. If POCT introduce to ED, it may help to shorten LOS of ED patients.

Enrollment: 10,244 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients older than 15 years
• clinically required to have chemistry lab tests
• ESI 2-5
• written agreement to participate

Exclusion criteria

• no agreement
• ESI level 1
• no chemistry lab

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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10,244 participants in 2 patient groups

POCT lab

Experimental group

Description:

The patient group whose laboratory test perform by POCT chemistry analyzer.

Treatment:

Device: point-of-care chemistry test(POCT) (Piccolo)

central laboratory group(CLT)

Active Comparator group

Description:

The patients group whose laboratory test perform by central laboratory.

Treatment:

Device: point-of-care chemistry test(POCT) (Piccolo)