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NCT number NCT02223455
Other study ID # CRE 12-289
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date October 1, 2014
Est. completion date March 1, 2019

Study information

Verified date September 2019
Source VA Office of Research and Development
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Hand hygiene is the single most effective practice in preventing the spread of hospital-acquired infections. Despite the strength of the evidence, hospital staff continue to sanitize their hands less than half of the time required by guidelines. Effective interventions are needed to improve hand hygiene compliance rates among hospital staff, but most are of poor quality and do not examine the specific effects of individual interventions. This study will build a "bundle" of three hand hygiene interventions using a research design that allows for the effectiveness of each intervention to be measured individually and combined.


Description:

The two specific aims and associated hypotheses of CREATE Project 2 include:

1. Identify combinations of hand-hygiene intervention strategies that optimize hand-hygiene compliance and that could form an evidence-based hand-hygiene bundle for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) implementation.

Hypothesis 1: Combinations of interventions will increase compliance rates more than single interventions.

Aim 1 will entail a 30-month cluster-randomized controlled trial that will sequentially test three individual hand-hygiene interventions - hand-hygiene point-of-use reminder signs to serve as an environmental cue to action, individual hand sanitizers, and health care worker hand cultures - to identify an optimal combination of interventions to increase hand-hygiene compliance. The trial will be conducted in 59 hospital units in 10 VA hospitals in order to test the efficacy of individual and then sequentially added interventions to determine their incremental impact on hand-hygiene compliance.

The focus for this clinical trial will be on Aim 1--Single Hand Hygiene Sign changes.

2. Identify institutional, organizational, ward/ICU, and individual level facilitators and barriers to implementing hand-hygiene interventions.

Hypothesis 2: Facilitators and barriers will pattern around contextual factors such as level of leadership support and organization of infection control programs.

Aim 2 will entail a qualitative process evaluation that includes site visits to purposefully selected sites, semi-structured interviews, and observations to examine barriers and facilitators to the interventions and develop contextual insight for implementing and scaling-up the intervention at additional sites as a national initiative.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 58
Est. completion date March 1, 2019
Est. primary completion date August 1, 2016
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Wards/units at 10 VA medical centers: hand hygiene observations of healthcare works on these wards/units

Exclusion Criteria:

None

Study Design


Intervention

Other:
Hand Hygiene Signs
Hand hygiene signs will not be changed (control) or change weekly/monthly on wards/units randomized to each of these study arms. Signs will be posted by the hand hygiene sanitizer outside each patient room.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI Ann Arbor Michigan
United States Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD Baltimore Maryland
United States VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus, Jamaica Plain, MA Boston Massachusetts
United States Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, IA Iowa City Iowa
United States Miami VA Healthcare System, Miami, FL Miami Florida
United States Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Minnesota
United States Omaha VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System, Omaha, NE Omaha Nebraska
United States VA Portland Health Care System, Portland, OR Portland Oregon
United States VA Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, UT Salt Lake City Utah
United States South Texas Health Care System, San Antonio, TX San Antonio Texas

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
VA Office of Research and Development

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Hand Hygiene Compliance Hand hygiene compliance is the primary outcome measure. Compliance rates will be determined using the same methods of direct observation of HCWs developed by Dr. Perencevich for his VA Health Services Research & Development (HSR&D) funded study (IIR 09-099). Compliance will be collected monthly throughout the project for each of the 59 units. phase 1 (7-12 months) thru phase 3 (19-21 months)
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