Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03966534
Blood Test Order and Culture Contamination
A Randomized Controlled Study of Blood Test Draw Order to Reduce Blood Culture Contamination
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 970 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Shaare Zedek Medical Center · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
A randomized partially controlled study to examine the effect of blood diversion into a heparin lithium tube on the incidence of blood culture contamination.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Blood diversion | Diversion of initial blood obtained at venipuncture to biochemistry tube in order to try and reduce incidence of blood culture contamination |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-09-01
- Primary completion
- 2019-02-28
- Completion
- 2019-02-28
- First posted
- 2019-05-29
- Last updated
- 2019-05-29
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Israel
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03966534. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.