NCT01050608

Evaluation of Body-worn Multimodal Hand Hygiene System. Impact on Health-Care Associated Infections

Real Time Deployment of Multimodal Personal Dispenser Hand Hygiene System in a Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 2,954 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Evaluate the efficacy of a multimodal hand hygiene system in the intensive care unit environment and evaluate any impact on health care associated infections.

Detailed description

Deploy and utilize a novel body worn hand hygiene system that incorporates provider and group specific feedback allowing hand hygiene to occur directly within the patient environment. We hypothesize that by improving provider hand hygiene we will reduce health-care associated infection rates.

Conditions

• Nosocomial Infection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Body worn alcohol gel dispenser	Records hand hygiene events of provider and tabulates on the group level.
DRUG	62% ethanol based hand cleanser	CDC based guidelines with regard to utilization in the health care environment "the nest"
BEHAVIORAL	Educational component with regard to teaching CDC guidelines	12 minute education prior to deploying device for all providers.
BEHAVIORAL	Provider and group feedback	Provide feedback with regard to expected hand hygiene goals to providers and reported anonymous group results based on recorded information.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-12-01
• Primary completion: 2009-12-01
• Completion: 2011-01-01
• First posted: 2010-01-15
• Last updated: 2011-06-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States