Active Bathing to Eliminate Infection (ABATE Infection) Trial
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2019-02-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The ABATE Infection Project is a cluster randomized trial of hospitals to compare two quality
improvement strategies to reduce multi-drug resistant organisms and healthcare-associated
infections in non-critical care units. The two strategies to be evaluated are:
- Arm 1: Routine Care Routine policy for showering/bathing
- Arm 2: Decolonization Use of chlorhexidine as routine soap for showering or bed bathing
for all patients Mupirocin x 5 days if MRSA+ by history, culture, or screen
Note that enrolled "subjects" represents 53 individual HCA Hospitals (representing ~190
non-critical care units) that have been randomized.
Phase:
N/A
Details
Lead Sponsor:
University of California, Irvine
Collaborators:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS and HSDM) Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) John H. Stroger Hospital National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rush University