Point-Of-Care Chemistry Test (POCT) Effect on the Emergency Department (ED)

Seoul National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Turnaround-time; Length of Stay; Emergency Department

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00942955

SNUEMS200801

Details and patient eligibility

About

The hypothesis of this study is that POCT will shorten ED turn-around-time (TAT) such as blood drawing TAT, lab TAT, and decision TAT.

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients older than 15 years
• clinically required to have chemistry lab tests
• agreement

Exclusion criteria

• no agreement
• ESI level 1

Trial design

0 participants in 2 patient groups

CLT

Description:

The patients whose blood are analyzed by conventional central laboratory.

POCT

Description:

the patients group whose lab analyze by POCT device.