Discontinuation of the bleeding time test without detectable adverse clinical impact.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:The bleeding time (BT) test predicts a higher bleeding complication rate in populations at risk for inherited or acquired platelet dysfunction, but it is of limited assistance in evaluating individual patients. There are no reports of clinical outcomes after discontinuation of the BT test. METHODS:Interviews with a subset of the physicians who had ordered the BT test before discontinuation of the test were conducted. The total number of platelet-aggregation tests, the mean number of monthly, unmodified platelet units transfused, the incidence of kidney biopsy complications, and the number of doses of 1-deamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP) administered 5 months before and after discontinuation of the BT test were compared. We recorded the rates of bleeding complications in the Major Surgery Risk Pool during the 12 months before and the 5 months after the discontinuation of the BT test. RESULTS:Clinicians reported they did not significantly change their preprocedural work-ups, postpone an invasive procedure, experience an increase in bleeding complications, or increase their use of blood products after discontinuation of the BT test. Platelet-aggregation tests (n = 9, before and after), platelet transfusions (P = 0.958), and DDAVP administration (before = 24; after = 10) did not increase after discontinuation of the BT test. The rate of postprocedural bleeding complications did not increase significantly in either Major Surgery Risk Pool cases (<3final sigma deviation from the mean rate) or in patients undergoing renal biopsies (P = 0.225 for decrease in hematocrit; P = 1.000 for the percentage of patients transfused) after discontinuation of the BT test. CONCLUSIONS:Our study failed to identify a clinically significant, negative impact of discontinuing the BT test.

journal_name

Clin Chem

journal_title

Clinical chemistry

authors

Lehman CM,Blaylock RC,Alexander DP,Rodgers GM

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-01-01 00:00:00

pages

1204-11

issue

7

eissn

0009-9147

issn

1530-8561

journal_volume

47

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