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Completed Phase 3 Interventional Accepts healthy volunteers

Community Trial of Newborn Skin and Umbilical Cord Cleansing on Neonatal Mortality in Nepal

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00109616

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Official title

Newborn Antiseptic Washing and Neonatal Mortality-Nepal

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT00109616
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 3
Lead sponsor
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
NIH
Enrollment
17,000 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

  • Newborn skin cleansing with 0.25% chlorhexidine solution Behavioral
  • Cleansing of umbilical cord with soap and water solution Behavioral
  • Cleansing of umbilical cord with 4% chlorhexidine Behavioral

Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
1 Minute to 10 Days
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Accepts healthy volunteers

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Sep 30, 2002
Primary completion
Not listed
Completion
Dec 31, 2005
Last update posted
Apr 30, 2013

2002 – 2006

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore Maryland 21205-2103

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Non-U.S. locations

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What this page shows
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