Effects of Isolated Rooms on the Prevalence of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia in a Respiratory ICU

Completed

• Conditions: Pneumonia; Intensive Care Unit

• Registration Number: NCT01250691
• Lead Sponsor: Eskisehir Osmangazi University

Brief Summary

This study will carry out in the ICU. Objectives of the study are to determine the frequency of HAP and the effect of isolated rooms on the frequency of pneumonia in the ICU.

Detailed Description

In the present study, it was aimed to determine the incidence, causative agents, antimicrobial resistance, and risk factors for lower respiratory tract infections in patients followed in the ICU for the last 4 years. The effect of reconfiguration from a ward-type ICU consisting one large room to an ICU with isolated rooms with two beds on the incidence of HAP was also determined.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2004-01
• Study Start: 2004-01
• Primary Completion: 2008-07
• Study Completion: 2010-08
• Study First Submitted: 2010-11-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-11-30
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-11-30
• Study First Posted: 2010-12-01
• Last Update Posted: 2010-12-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 532

Inclusion Criteria

• adult patients,
• admitted to the ICU

Exclusion Criteria

• trauma, surgery or burned patients
• patients under 18

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Eskisehir Osmangazi University; 🇹🇷 Eskisehir, Turkey

Osmangazi University; 🇹🇷 Eskisehir, Merkez, Turkey