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Blood Test Order and Culture Contamination

NCT03966534 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 970

Last updated 2019-05-29

No results posted yet for this study

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

  • Blood Culture Contamination

Interventions

OTHER

Blood diversion

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Shaare Zedek Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-09-01
Primary Completion
2019-02-28
Completion
2019-02-28

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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