Effectiveness of Enhanced Terminal Room Disinfection to Prevent Healthcare-associated Infections (HAIs)

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Conditions studied: Multidrug Resistant Organisms, Healthcare Associated Infections

In brief

Enhanced terminal room disinfection is a novel, promising, but still unproven strategy for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) due to selected multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial pathogens. The investigators will perform a large prospective, multicenter study enhanced terminal room disinfection to 1) determine the efficacy and feasibility of enhanced terminal room disinfection strategies to prevent HAIs and 2) determine the impact of environmental contamination on acquisition of MDR-pathogens among hospitalized patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01579370

Run by

Duke University

People needed

21395

Starts

2012-04-01

Expected to finish

2015-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-11-17

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Any seed room (ie., room from which a patient with one of the target organisms has been transferred or discharged)

You may not qualify if…

• None, intervention is at level of the room, not the patient
• Patient outcomes will be excluded if clinical cultures are obtained within 48 hours of admission to the room of interest.

Where it is running

• Alamance Regional Medical Center — Burlington, North Carolina, United States
• University of North Carolina Hospitals — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
• Durham Regional Hospital — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Duke University Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• Durham VA Medical Center — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• High Point Regional Health System — High Point, North Carolina, United States
• Rex Healthcare — Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
• Duke Raleigh Hospital — Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
• Chesapeake Regional Medical Center — Chesapeake, Virginia, United States

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