CompletedNot Applicable

Active Bathing to Eliminate Infection (ABATE Infection) Trial

United States53 participantsStarted 2014-04

Plain-language summary

The ABATE Infection Project is a cluster randomized trial of hospitals to compare two quality improvement strategies to reduce multi-drug resistant organisms and healthcare-associated infections in non-critical care units. The two strategies to be evaluated are: * Arm 1: Routine Care Routine policy for showering/bathing * Arm 2: Decolonization Use of chlorhexidine as routine soap for showering or bed bathing for all patients Mupirocin x 5 days if MRSA+ by history, culture, or screen Note that enrolled "subjects" represents 53 individual HCA Hospitals (representing \~190 non-critical care units) that have been randomized.

Who can participate

Age range12 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * All HCA hospitals that reside in the United States * Note: Unit of randomization is the hospital, but the participants are hospital units Exclusion Criteria: * Non-critical care units where chlorhexidine bathing or decolonization for MRSA+ non-critical care patients is routine * Pediatric, peri-partum, rehabilitation, psychiatry, and BMT units * Units with \>30% cardiac or hip/knee orthopedic surgeries * Unit average length of stay \<2 days * Patients \<12 years-old * Patients with known allergy to mupirocin or chlorhexidine

What they're measuring

MRSA and VRE Clinical Cultures

Timeframe: 21 months

Trial details

NCT IDNCT02063867

SponsorUniversity of California, Irvine

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2019-02

Results submitted2019-04-29

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