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Daily Mouth Care to Prevent Pneumonia in Nursing Homes

NCT03817450 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1416

Last updated 2019-11-13

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Summary

This project will determine whether an evidence-based, tested, pragmatic, system-level, comprehensive mouth care program provided to nursing home residents can reduce the incidence of pneumonia. It also will examine matters related to implementation, sustainability, and cost. If effective, the investigators expect this program to be widely adopted and sustained, to result in fewer episodes of pneumonia, and to reduce health-care costs.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Daily Mouth Care

Nursing assistants will be trained to provide daily mouth care to all residents in nursing homes. Mouth care supplies will also be provided to intervention nursing homes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-05-31
Completion
2017-06-30

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