# Evaluation of an Internal Hospital Practice: The Effect of Altered Test Tubes Sampling Order on Blood Culture Contamination Rates

> **NCT03088865** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Hadassah Medical Organization** · enrollment: 756 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Septicemia

## Interventions

- **DIAGNOSTIC_TEST:** aspirating first blood volume into a regular blood collection tube

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT03088865
- **Lead sponsor:** Hadassah Medical Organization
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2017-09-01
- **Primary completion:** 2018-09-06
- **Final completion:** 2018-09-06
- **Target enrollment:** 756 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2020-07-29


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03088865

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT03088865, "Evaluation of an Internal Hospital Practice: The Effect of Altered Test Tubes Sampling Order on Blood Culture Contamination Rates". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-01 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT03088865. Licensed CC0.

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