NCT01250691

Effects of Isolated Rooms on the Prevalence of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia in a Respiratory ICU

Epidemiologic Study of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia in a Respiratory ICU

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 532 (actual)
• Sponsor: Eskisehir Osmangazi University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will carry out in the ICU. Objectives of the study are to determine the frequency of HAP and the effect of isolated rooms on the frequency of pneumonia in the ICU.

Detailed description

In the present study, it was aimed to determine the incidence, causative agents, antimicrobial resistance, and risk factors for lower respiratory tract infections in patients followed in the ICU for the last 4 years. The effect of reconfiguration from a ward-type ICU consisting one large room to an ICU with isolated rooms with two beds on the incidence of HAP was also determined.

Conditions

• Pneumonia
• Intensive Care Unit

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	ward-type ICU	frequency of hospital acquired pneumonia in the ICU

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-01-01
• Primary completion: 2008-07-01
• Completion: 2010-08-01
• First posted: 2010-12-01
• Last updated: 2010-12-01

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)