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A randomized partially controlled study to examine the effect of blood diversion into a heparin lithium tube on the incidence of blood culture contamination.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Control Group | No Intervention | Blood culture obtained as first test after venipuncture and prior to biochemistry test | |
| Diversion Group | Experimental | Biochemistry test obtained as first test after venepuncture and prior to blood culture |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Blood diversion | Other | Diversion of initial blood obtained at venipuncture to biochemistry tube in order to try and reduce incidence of blood culture contamination |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Blood culture contamination | Growth of bacteria defined as blood culture contaminants (for example coagulase negative staphylococci in one bottle only). | up to 7 days from obtaining blood culture |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Patient length of stay | Length of stay from arrival at Emergency room until discharge in hours | up to 3 months from arrival |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Shaare Zedek Medical Center | Jerusalem | Israel |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 31570942 | Derived | Zimmerman FS, Karameh H, Ben-Chetrit E, Zalut T, Assous M, Levin PD. Modification of Blood Test Draw Order to Reduce Blood Culture Contamination: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Aug 22;71(5):1215-1220. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz971. |
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Prospective partially blinded randomized study
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