Blood Cultures's Profitability in Intensive Care Unit

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02869191

Enrollment

900

Registered

2016-08-16

Start date

2012-10-31

Completion date

2018-07-31

Last updated

2018-08-08

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Conditions

Bacteremia

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the blood cultures' profitability in intensive care unit and create a validated prediction rule for extractioning in critical patients.

Detailed description

Implementing a predictive rule blood cultures to determine the probability of positive or negative result, improving the profitability of the diagnostic test.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Patients who have been extracted blood culture sample

Exclusion criteria

* Under-aged, pregnants, Major burns.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Percentage of positive, negative and contaminated blood cultures	2 years

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Percentage of positive, negative and contaminated blood cultures after training program	9 months	the effect of applying a blood culture extraction protocol is measured

Other

Measure	Time frame
Contamination rates of blood cultures	1 year

Countries

Spain

Outcome results