NCT01402635

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

A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Central Laboratory and Point-of-care Chemistry Test for Solving the Emergency Department Crowding

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10,244 (actual)
• Sponsor: Seoul National University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Crowding

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	point-of-care chemistry test(POCT) (Piccolo)	comprehensive chemistry POCT including ALB, ALP, ALT, AST, BUN, Ca, Cl-, Cre, Glu, K+, Na+, TBil, TCO2, TP It takes 12minutes to perform analyze.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-08-01
• Completion: 2011-08-01
• First posted: 2011-07-26
• Last updated: 2012-07-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea