Catheter associated urinary tract infections: the role of chlorhedixdine in reducing urinary infections in hospitalised patients.
- Conditions
- Catheter associated asymptomatic bacteriuriaCatheter associated urinary tract infectionsInfection - Studies of infection and infectious agents
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12617000373370
- Lead Sponsor
- Avondale College
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1642
The hospital must meet the following inclusion criteria:
1.Has an intensive care unit.
2.Is classified by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare as a principal referral hospital OR a public acute group A hospital (with more than 400 beds), OR in the case of a private hospital has 400 inpatient beds OR has more than 30,000 patient admissions per year.
The study will be a hospital wide study, but with the following exclusion criteria:
- Patients that do not require a catheter.
- Individual areas within a hospital that are not considered appropriate for the intervention
- Neonatal intensive care departments
- Any patient less than 2 years old
- Patients with indwelling urinary catheters inserted in theatre.
- Patients with an allergy, contraindication or other medical reason preventing the use of the intervention for cleaning the urethral meatal area will be excluded.
Patients who require in-and-out or suprapubic catheterisation will also be excluded as well as those with symptoms and signs suggestive of UTI and patients already undergoing treatment for UTI.
Hospitals could be excluded from the study if within the study time frame they are; undertaking a project that may influence the outcomes measured in this study; opening, closing or relocating
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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