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Comparing Visual Inspection, Performance Observation, and Aerobic Colony Counts for Evaluating Hospital Cleanliness

NCT ID: NCT04956029

Last Updated: 2021-10-13

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Total Enrollment

1000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-07-01

Study Completion Date

2022-12-31

Brief Summary

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This study aims to compare correlation between outcome and performance observations and effectiveness by using aerobic colony counts as a comparator in order to find out which method would be better to be used to assess hospital cleanliness.

Detailed Description

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Design and Setting We perform a prospective study which is conducted in a 17-bed adult medical intensive care unit with approximately 352 annually admissions at a tertiary hospital in Taiwan from July 2021 to December 2022. Cleaning performance observation will be performed according to the environmental checklist for monitoring terminal cleaning released by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2014, to select sampling areas of high-touch surfaces in patient rooms, including bed controls, bed rails, cart pulls, light switches, machine controls, tray tables and call buttons.

Data collection The housekeepers start to do terminal cleaning after patients are transferred or discharged, the researcher also starts to observe directly the practices of cleaning at the same time and recorded "compliant" or "not compliant" whenever surfaces are cleaned and disinfected properly or on the contrary. The high-touch surfaces are disinfected with solution which contained Sodium dichloroisocyanurate (NaDCC). Right after the surfaces are cleaned, the researcher inspect the surfaces and record "clean" or "not clean" whenever surfaces are free of dust, debris, and stains immediately after terminal cleaning or on the contrary.

Ten minutes after surfaces are cleaned and disinfected, Hygiena Ultrasnap Surface ATP test will be applied to swab a standard 10\*10 cm area on selected surfaces by samping templet. After completing sampling, swabs are replaced back in swab tube and all liquid in bulbs was expelled to activate the reaction. Once activated, samples were read right after shaking swab tube for 5-10 seconds. The ATP readings less than 10 RLU (relative light unit, RLU) are interpreted as "pass".

The designated cleaner and the researcher will be assigned to clean high-touch room surfaces and to be in charge of evaluating and sampling, respectively.

Statistical analysis Descriptive statistics are calculated including numbers, percentage, mean and standard deviation. Inferential statistics are analyzed with SPSS (version 22) to determine correlation between results of performance observation, Visual inspection and ATP interpretation by using Chi-square test or Fisher's exact test. The phi coefficient are calculated to measure strength between two sets of data. The phi coefficient refers to the meaning of Pearson's Correlation coefficients, values 0.01-0.19 as no or negligible, 0.2-0.39 as weak positive, 0.4-0.69 as medium positive, 0.7-1.0 as strong positive.12 The ATP readings were compared between "not compliant" and "compliant", and between "not clean" and "clean" respectively by using Mann-Whitney U test.

Conditions

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Auditing Methods for Hospital Cleanliness

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

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There are no any interventions. This is to observe and test hospital cleanliness.

There are no any interventions. This is to observe and test hospital cleanliness.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

rooms after patients are discharged

Exclusion Criteria

no
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Taichung Veterans General Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Chen Ying-Chun

infection control nurse

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Ying-Chun Chen, MS

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Taichung Veterans General Hospital Infection Control Center

Locations

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Taichung

Taichung, , Taiwan

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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Taiwan

Central Contacts

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Ying-Chun Chen, MS

Role: CONTACT

[email protected]
886-4-23592525 ext. 3085

Ying-Chun Chen, MS

Role: CONTACT

Facility Contacts

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Ying-Chun Chen, MS

Role: primary

Other Identifiers

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CW21156B

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id