Blood Test Order and Culture Contamination

Shaare Zedek Medical Center970 enrolled

Overview

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

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

970

Conditions

Blood Culture Contamination

Interventions

Blood diversionOTHER

Diversion of initial blood obtained at venipuncture to biochemistry tube in order to try and reduce incidence of blood culture contamination

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Jerusalem, Israel

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Blood culture contamination

Growth of bacteria defined as blood culture contaminants (for example coagulase negative staphylococci in one bottle only).

Time frame: up to 7 days from obtaining blood culture

Secondary Outcomes

Patient length of stay

Length of stay from arrival at Emergency room until discharge in hours

Time frame: up to 3 months from arrival

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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