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Bacterial Contamination of Workwear

NCT01192841 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2010-09-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Governmental agencies in the United Kingdom and Scotland have recently instituted guidelines banning physicians' white coats and wearing of long-sleeved garments to decrease hospital transmission of bacteria. The purpose of this study is to compare the bacterial contamination of physicians' white coats with that of newly laundered, standardized short-sleeved uniforms after an eight-hour workday and to determine the rate at which bacterial contamination of the uniform ensues. Our hypothesis was that the physician white coat would have more bacterial contamination at the end of the work day.

Conditions

  • Bacterial Contamination of Physician Attire

Interventions

OTHER

Physician uniform

Participants were given a clean uniform (scrubs) on the day of the study. They wore this for approximately 8 hours.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Denver Health and Hospital Authority

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marisha Burden, MD · Denver Health and Housing Authority

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Primary Completion
2009-11-30
Completion
2009-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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