NCT04769336

Effectiveness of Point of Care Complete Blood Cell Count Analyzer in Reducing Time to Results

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Northwestern Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The current process for getting complete blood cell counts (CBC) results in the operating room during surgery relies on sending blood samples from the operating room to the hospital's central lab. This workflow is complex and often results in handing off the blood sample to 4 or more different staff members before arriving in the lab for analysis. This often causes delayed CBC results, which may lead to inappropriate or delayed clinical decision making. By providing prompt access to CBC results with the use of a point of care CBC analyzer, the clinical workflow efficiency can be significantly improved. This should resulting in better clinical decision making, reductions in costs, increase in patient satisfaction and facilitation of hospital processes.

Conditions

• Laboratory Problem

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Central Lab based CBC	lab samples will be sent to the central lab for CBC analysis
DEVICE	Point of Care CBC	lab samples will be analyzed at point of care

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-01
• Primary completion: 2022-03-31
• Completion: 2022-03-31
• First posted: 2021-02-24
• Last updated: 2021-02-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study