Comparison of Point of care International Normalised Ratio(INR)and laboratory INR in patients presenting to an Emergency Department to determine accuracy and clinical utility

Comparison of Point of Care International Normalised Ratios (INR) to laboratory INRs in patients presenting to an Emergency Department to determine accuracy and clinical utility

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12609000383268

Enrollment

312

Registered

2009-05-29

Start date

2008-04-04

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

Point of Care (POC)technology as the potential to expediate decision making and therefore benedit patient care and flow throught the Emergency Department. POC International Normalised Ratio (INR) is in common use in the community for monitoring warfarin therapy use. If found to be accurate as a marker of coagulopathy for emergency patients would potentially be a useful addition to tests available to the Emergency Physician

Interventions

patients requiring international normalised ratio (INR) as part of their assessment have venepuncture performed and less than one ml of the venepeuncture drawn blood is simultaneously used for the point of care (POC) INR test and a comparison of the results is then carried out

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

INR being tested

Exclusion criteria

INR not tested

Outcome results