Mastering Hospital Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Spread Into the Community-Healthcare Workers

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

150 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2008-10-31

Study Completion Date

2014-01-31

Brief Summary

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Medical staff will be screened for MRSA and ESBL (including: doctors, nurses, nurse aids, physical therapists, dietitians, Janitors and other medical staff).

PURPOSE:

To define the carriage of, and risk factors for carriage of resistant organisms among healthcare employees of carriers of resistant bacteria.

To define activities of healthcare employees who likely to lead to dissemination of resistant bacteria in rehabilitation centers.

Detailed Description

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Detailed activity:

Medical staff will be screened for MRSA and ESBL (including: doctors, nurses, nurse aids, physical therapists, dietitians, Janitors and other medical staff).

Screening will be performed by obtaining nares and perirectal cultures. Nares cultures will be obtained by ward staff or research personnel who are experienced in performing this activity: a moisture swab will be applied gently to the distal part of both nares. Perirectal cultures, will be taken by swab, who will be applied to the perirectal area, either by staff as mentioned above, or will be given to the healthcare workers to perform by himself (with explanation on how to perform it).

Conditions

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Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus ESBL

Keywords

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Healthcare employees who work in the rehabilitation center

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Health care employees

Exclusion Criteria

* Age 18 years or less

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Responsible Party

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TASMC

Principal Investigators

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Yehuda carmeli, MD MPH

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

TASMC

Locations

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Tasmc

Tel Aviv, , Israel

Site Status

Countries

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Israel

Central Contacts

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yaffa LERMAN, MD

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 97252-4266910

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Yaffa lerman, md

Role: primary

References

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Albrich WC, Harbarth S. Health-care workers: source, vector, or victim of MRSA? Lancet Infect Dis. 2008 May;8(5):289-301. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(08)70097-5.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

PMID: 18471774 (View on PubMed)

Carmeli Y, Venkataraman L, DeGirolami PC, Lichtenberg DA, Karchmer AW, Samore MH. Stool colonization of healthcare workers with selected resistant bacteria. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 1998 Jan;19(1):38-40. doi: 10.1086/647705.