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Building an Optimal Hand Hygiene Bundle

NCT02223455 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 58

Last updated 2019-10-04

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Summary

Hand hygiene is the single most effective practice in preventing the spread of hospital-acquired infections. Despite the strength of the evidence, hospital staff continue to sanitize their hands less than half of the time required by guidelines. Effective interventions are needed to improve hand hygiene compliance rates among hospital staff, but most are of poor quality and do not examine the specific effects of individual interventions. This study will build a "bundle" of three hand hygiene interventions using a research design that allows for the effectiveness of each intervention to be measured individually and combined.

Conditions

  • Hand Hygiene
  • Health Care Associated Infection
  • Compliance

Interventions

OTHER

Hand Hygiene Signs

Hand hygiene signs will not be changed (control) or change weekly/monthly on wards/units randomized to each of these study arms. Signs will be posted by the hand hygiene sanitizer outside each patient room.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Heather S Reisinger, PhD · Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, IA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-10-01
Primary Completion
2016-08-01
Completion
2019-03-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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