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Hand Hygiene and Hospital Acquired Infections

NCT02252562 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3256

Last updated 2019-02-18

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Summary

Healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) and evolving bacterial resistance are major public health concerns that impact all areas of healthcare. Further work is needed to better understand these healthcare issues so that effective preventive measures can be developed.

The investigators have developed and validated an experimental model for studying the risk factors for bacterial cross contamination in the surgical operating room. The investigators have confirmed in our previous work that intraoperative bacterial transmission events occur frequently both within and between surgical cases and that these transmission events are linked to 30-day postoperative HCAIs and increased patient mortality.

In response, the investigators have implemented various strategies designed to bacterial transmission in the operating room, including anesthesia provider hand hygiene compliance. The investigators' recent work in the intensive care unit suggests that the hand hygiene system the investigators have previously studied could be further optimized.

The investigators now propose to evaluate the effectiveness of a multimodal hand hygiene system enhanced with novel wireless technology designed to facilitate real-time group and individual performance feedback.

The investigators hypothesize that the use of this system will increase hourly hand decontamination events of anesthesia and circulating nurse providers and reduce 30-day postoperative healthcare-associated infections HCAIs (primary outcome), reduce hospital stay duration, and hospital re-admission rates, and mortality(secondary outcomes).

Conditions

  • Complication of Surgical Procedure

Interventions

DEVICE

Sage Personal Hand Hygiene System

Utilization of a health care provider worn personal hand hygiene system during routine practice in the intra-operative setting with provider specific individual feedback.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sage Products, Inc.

    collaborator INDUSTRY

  • Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stephen O Heard, MD · UMass Memorial Health

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-09-30
Primary Completion
2014-09-30
Completion
2015-08-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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