Sprixx-ICU: Evaluation of Body-worn Multimodal Hand Hygiene System. Impact on Health-Care Associated Infections

Sponsor

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Other)

Overall Status

Completed

CT.gov ID

NCT01050608

Collaborator

Harbor Medical Inc. (Industry)

2,954

Enrollment

Location

Duration (Months)

79.8

Patients Per Site Per Month

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Evaluate the efficacy of a multimodal hand hygiene system in the intensive care unit environment and evaluate any impact on health care associated infections.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Nosocomial Infection	Device: Body worn alcohol gel dispenser Drug: 62% ethanol based hand cleanser Behavioral: Educational component with regard to teaching CDC guidelines Behavioral: Provider and group feedback

Detailed Description

Deploy and utilize a novel body worn hand hygiene system that incorporates provider and group specific feedback allowing hand hygiene to occur directly within the patient environment. We hypothesize that by improving provider hand hygiene we will reduce health-care associated infection rates.

Study Design

Study Type:

Observational

Actual Enrollment :

2954 participants

Observational Model:

Cohort

Time Perspective:

Prospective

Official Title:

Real Time Deployment of Multimodal Personal Dispenser Hand Hygiene System in a Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Unit.

Study Start Date :

Dec 1, 2007

Actual Primary Completion Date :

Dec 1, 2009

Actual Study Completion Date :

Jan 1, 2011

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Sprixx Device Group Treatment group utilizing multimodal hand hygiene device	Device: Body worn alcohol gel dispenser Records hand hygiene events of provider and tabulates on the group level. Drug: 62% ethanol based hand cleanser CDC based guidelines with regard to utilization in the health care environment "the nest" Behavioral: Educational component with regard to teaching CDC guidelines 12 minute education prior to deploying device for all providers. Behavioral: Provider and group feedback Provide feedback with regard to expected hand hygiene goals to providers and reported anonymous group results based on recorded information.
Standard Hand Hygiene Group Utilizing wall mounted dispensers and CDC based guidelines.

Arm

Intervention/Treatment

Sprixx Device Group

Treatment group utilizing multimodal hand hygiene device

Device: Body worn alcohol gel dispenser

Records hand hygiene events of provider and tabulates on the group level.

Drug: 62% ethanol based hand cleanser

CDC based guidelines with regard to utilization in the health care environment "the nest"

Behavioral: Educational component with regard to teaching CDC guidelines

12 minute education prior to deploying device for all providers.

Behavioral: Provider and group feedback

Provide feedback with regard to expected hand hygiene goals to providers and reported anonymous group results based on recorded information.

Standard Hand Hygiene Group

Utilizing wall mounted dispensers and CDC based guidelines.

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

Reduction in healthcare associated infections (CRBSI and VAP) [2 years]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Time to infections Hospital mortality Length of stay [2 years]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:

N/A and Older

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

All ICU patients

Exclusion Criteria:

Patient is not in an ICU at our Institution

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Dartmouth-HItchcock Medical Center	Lebanon	New Hampshire	United States	03756

Sponsors and Collaborators

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Harbor Medical Inc.

Investigators

Principal Investigator: Matthew D. Koff, M.D. M.S., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Principal Investigator: Randy L Loftus, M.D., Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center