NCT03588221

Simplifying the World Health Organization (WHO) Protocol for Hand Hygiene

Simplifying the WHO Protocol for Hand Hygiene: Three Steps and 15 Seconds - a Randomized Cross-over Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Non-inferiority in terms of reduction of bacterial counts will be investigated when combining the simpler three-step hand hygiene technique for the use of hand rub with a shorter application time of 15 seconds compared to the to the three steps technique with an application time of 30 seconds and the technique consisting in six steps.

Conditions

• Hand Hygiene

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	four sets of hand hygiene measurements per participant	1. Six-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 30 seconds 2. Six-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 15 seconds 3. Three-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 30 seconds 4. Three-step hand hygiene technique with an application time of 15 seconds

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-07-16
• Primary completion: 2018-12-31
• Completion: 2018-12-31
• First posted: 2018-07-17
• Last updated: 2019-01-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland