NCT01069497

Preventability of Infections in Residents of French Nursing Homes

Impact of a Multifaceted Intervention on the Preventability of Infections in Residents of French Nursing Homes: Cluster-randomised Controlled Trial (ENLIL Study)

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 3,500 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Observatoire du Risque Infectieux en Gériatrie · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

STUDY HYPOTHESIS : An infection prevention program adapted for the nursing home context can reduce by 5% the number of infections (urinary, upper and lower respiratory and gastrointestinal) in elderly residents in nursing homes. STUDY DESIGN : The proposal is for an interventional cluster (nursing home) study comprising 2 randomized groups: group 1 (interventional), comprising 25 nursing homes implementing a specific infection prevention program; and group 2 (control), 25 nursing homes continuing to implement their routine prevention measures.

Conditions

• Infection Control

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Prevention of infections program	The intervention mainly involves implementing urinary, respiratory and gastrointestinal infection prevention measures. Study nursing home medical coordinators will be in charge of training their own teams. For this, they will be provided with: * a slide-show of recommendations (commented by an expert), * recommendations guides (on paper and on computer) to be shown to their teams. Means will be provided to the intervention nursing homes : Hydro-alcoholic solutions, disinfectant detergent-impregnated tissues, mouth care kits, tec.

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-11-01
• Primary completion: 2010-04-01
• Completion: 2010-04-01
• First posted: 2010-02-17
• Last updated: 2010-02-17