Clinical Trial: Active Bathing to Eliminate Infection (ABATE Infection) Trial

Study Status: Active, not recruiting
Recruit Status: Active, not recruiting
Study Type: Interventional



Official Title: Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial of Hospitals to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections and Readmissions Through Routine Bathing With Antiseptic Soap and Targeted Use

Brief Summary:

The ABATE Infection Project is a cluster randomized trial of hospitals to compare two quality improvement strategies to reduce multi-drug resistant organisms and healthcare-associated infections in non-critical care units. The two strategies to be evaluated are:

  • Arm 1: Routine Care Routine policy for showering/bathing
  • Arm 2: Decolonization Use of chlorhexidine as routine soap for showering or bed bathing for all patients Mupirocin x 5 days if MRSA+ by history, culture, or screen

Note that enrolled "subjects" represents 53 individual HCA Hospitals (representing ~190 non-critical care units) that have been randomized.