- Title
- A Randomised Controlled Trial Investigating the Effect of Improving the Cleaning and Disinfection of Shared Medical Equipment on Healthcare-Associated Infections: the CLEaning and Enhanced DisiNfection (CLEEN) Study
- Creator
- Browne, Katrina; White, Nicole; Kiernan, Martin; Brain, David; Mitchell, Brett G.; Tehan, Peta; Russo, Philip L.; Amin, Maham; Stewardson, Andrew J.; Cheng, Allen C.; Graham, Kirsty; O’Kane, Gabrielle; King, Jennie
- Relation
- Trials Vol. 24, Issue 1, no. 133
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-023-07144-z
- Publisher
- BioMed Central (BMC)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2023
- Description
- Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a common, costly, yet largely preventable complication impacting patients in healthcare settings globally. Improving routine cleaning and disinfection of the hospital environment has been shown to reduce the risk of HAI. Contaminated shared medical equipment presents a primary transmission route for infectious pathogens, yet is rarely studied. The CLEEN study will assess how enhanced cleaning and disinfection of shared medical equipment affects the rate of HAIs in a tertiary hospital setting. The initiative is an evidence-based approach combining staff training, auditing and feedback to environmental services staff to enhance cleaning and disinfection practices. Methods: The CLEEN study will use a stepped wedge randomised controlled design in 10 wards of one large Australian hospital over 36 weeks. The intervention will consist of 3 additional hours per weekday for the dedicated cleaning and disinfection of shared medical equipment on each ward. The primary outcome is to demonstrate the effectiveness of improving the quality and frequency of cleaning shared medical equipment in reducing HAIs, as measured by a HAI point prevalence study (PPS). The secondary outcomes include the thoroughness of equipment cleaning assessed using fluorescent marker technology and the cost-effectiveness of the intervention. Discussion: Evidence from the CLEEN study will contribute to future policy and practice guidelines about the cleaning and disinfection of shared medical equipment. It will be used by healthcare leaders and clinicians to inform decision-making and implementation of best-practice infection prevention strategies to reduce HAIs in healthcare facilities. Trial registration: Australia New Zealand Clinical Trial Registry ACTRN12622001143718.
- Subject
- hospitals; cleaning; cross-infection; cost-effectiveness; shared medical equipment; infection control
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1480017
- Identifier
- uon:50428
- Identifier
- ISSN:1745-6215
- Rights
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
- Language
- eng
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