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Evaluating the Impact That Personnel Traffic Through the Operating Room Has on Surgical Site Infections

NCT01783769 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1944

Last updated 2017-08-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

All eligible patients who will have neurosurgery at Barrow Neurological Institute (BNI) between March 1, 2013 and February 28, 2014 will be enrolled as part of this study that will look at the flow of staff people in and out of the operating room during surgeries and the effect that the number of people may have on the rate of infections in the surgical sites.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

"Low O.R. Traffic"

"Low OR Traffic" protocol will restrict personnel movement thru the operating room to a "bare minimum" of personnel traffic.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert F. Spetzler, MD · St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-03-31
Primary Completion
2016-07-31
Completion
2016-07-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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