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

• Conditions: Laboratory Problem
• Interventions: Device: Central Lab based CBC; Device: Point of Care CBC

• Registration Number: NCT04769336
• Lead Sponsor: Northwestern Medicine

Brief 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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2021-02
• Study First Submitted: 2021-02-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-02-23
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-02-23
• Study First Posted: 2021-02-24
• Last Update Posted: 2021-02-24
• Study Start: 2021-04-01
• Primary Completion: 2022-03-31
• Study Completion: 2022-03-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• All English speaking patients, 18 years or older, having surgery in the Lake Forest Hospital operating rooms, with a pre-existing indication for CBC analysis.

Exclusion Criteria

• All patients not meeting inclusion criteria or protected patient populations, specifically, pregnant women, prisoners, cognitively impaired patients, patients unable to consent, students, employees, and children)

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Patient	Point of Care CBC	Each patient will undergo simultaneous testing with two different CBC analyzers.
Patient	Central Lab based CBC	Each patient will undergo simultaneous testing with two different CBC analyzers.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time to result	Through study completion, an average of 1 year	Time between blood draw and CBC result displayed in Electronic medical record

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital; 🇺🇸 Lake Forest, Illinois, United States