NCT00973063

Effectiveness of Routine Sterile Gloving in Blood Culture

Influence of Routine Sterile Gloving on Contamination Rates in Blood Culture

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,854 (actual)
• Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Bacteremia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Routine sterile gloving	routinely new sterile gloving just before sampling

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-03-01
• Primary completion: 2009-12-01
• Completion: 2009-12-01
• First posted: 2009-09-09
• Last updated: 2013-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea