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Comprehensive Intervention to Improve Environmental Disinfection

ConditionHospital Acquired Condition
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorAssaf-Harofeh Medical Center

About this trial

A comprehensive intervention to improve the level of cleaning and disinfection of patients' units, in order to reduce new acquisitions and environmental contamination by multidrug resistant organisms: a prospective controlled crossover trial, using VYV led lights and continuous air filtering of patients' rooms, coupled with establishment of a "patient's unit commando" cleaning team.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Hospitalized at Medicine A or Medicine B, Shamir (Assaf Harofeh) Medical Center.

Disqualifiers

N/A

Trial design

Design model

Crossover

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Comprehensive intervention

    Other intervention

    cleaning of patients' rooms will be subjected to a comprehensive intervention, consisting of: 1) a "patient's unit commando" team for daily and for terminal cleaning, 2) all lights in patients' room are VYV led lights, and 3) in each room, a QleanAir Scandinavia® filtering machine will be placed.

Treatment groups

1,400 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Comprehensive interventionExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Common PracticeNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Acquisitions of pre-specified MDROs:

Incidence of MDRO new carriage acquisitions (per 1,000 patient-days).

Time frame
6 months

Secondary outcomes

1

Acquisitions of hospital acquired bloodstream infection

The hospital acquired bloodstream infection (HA-BSI) incidence (per 1,000 patient-days).

Time frame
6 months
2

Acquisitions of ospital acquired urinary-tract infection (HAUTI) incidence (per 1,000 patient-days).

The hospital acquired urinary-tract infection (HAUTI) incidence (per 1,000 patient-days).

Time frame
6 months

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center

Lead sponsor

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