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Helping Hands: Promoting Hand Hygiene in Hospital Nurses

NCT00548015 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 900

Last updated 2009-10-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Hand hygiene prescriptions are the most important measure in the prevention of hospital acquired infections. Yet compliance rates are generally below 50% of all opportunities for hand hygiene adherence. This study will test the short- and long term effects of two strategies for promoting hand hygiene in hospital nurses

Conditions

  • Handwashing

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

state-of-the art strategy and extented strategy

state-of-the art: education, reminders, performance feedback, extented:state-of-the art and coaching ward manager,modeling of informal leaders, norm and target setting

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development

    collaborator OTHER

  • Radboud University Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Theo van Achterberg, PhD RN · Centre for Quality of Care Research

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-03-31
Primary Completion
2009-11-30
Completion
2009-11-30

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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