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Physical Plant Design and Engineering Controls and the Prevention of Nosocomial Infections and Antibiotic Resistant Organism Colonization Events - A Proposal for a Prospective Controlled Trial
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Admission to a novel hospital ward for Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci Infection and 3 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 1,514 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
With the construction of a new medical teaching ward with features designed to reduce hospital-acquired infections, we hypothesized that the design of the new ward was the major factor that contributed to the improved outcomes and designed a prospective, controlled study to examine this hypothesis.
Study Details
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Interventions
Hospital admission to a ward with novel infection control design features (e.g., abundance of sinks, predominance (80%) of private rooms, absence of shared bathrooms, absence of curtains)