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Current Surgical Practices and Surgical Site Infection at Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Mekelle, Ethiopia

NCT03761459 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1240

Last updated 2023-05-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study evaluates the current surgical practices at Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in comparison to the World Health Organization's Surgical Unit Based Safety Programme guidelines and aims to determine how deviations from those guidelines are associated with varying rates of surgical site infection incidence in this population. The results of this study will help elucidate risk factors for surgical site infection and prioritize future interventions to decrease the rate of surgical site infection at Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, as well as other low and middle-income hospitals. The data collected regarding surgical site infection rates will also prove beneficial in measuring outcomes of any interventions that are developed as a result of this study.

Conditions

  • Surgical Wound Infection
  • Infected Wound
  • Surgical Site Infection
  • Surgery--Complications
  • Surgery
  • Surgical Wound

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mekelle University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Illinois at Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Erin Cavanaugh, MD · University of Illinois at Chicago

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-03-20
Primary Completion
2019-10-08
Completion
2023-12-30

Countries

  • Ethiopia

Study Locations

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