Effectiveness of Routine Sterile Gloving in Blood Culture

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bacteremia

Treatments: Behavioral: Routine sterile gloving

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00973063

0906-029-283

SNUHIMI01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether routine sterile gloving can lower contamination rates in blood culture.

Full description

Because contamination during sampling for blood culture may interfere in interpreting the results of blood culture, lowering the contamination rates in blood culture is very important. According to current guideline, routine sterile gloving is not recommended. We hypothesized that routine sterile gloving can lower contamination rates in blood culture.

Enrollment: 1,854 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The patients in whom Blood culture is medically needed

Exclusion criteria

• Blood sample is obtained through central venous catheter or arterial line
• No consent to this study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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1,854 participants in 2 patient groups

conventional gloving

No Intervention group

routine sterile gloving

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Routine sterile gloving