Preadmission Skin Wipe Use for Surgical Site Infection Prophylaxis in Adult Orthopaedic Surgery Patients
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Official title
Efficacy of Preadmission Theraworx Wipe Use for Surgical Site Infection Prophylaxis in Adult Orthopaedic Surgery Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Brief summary
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Intervention: This study will involve three different study arms with different interventions prior to surgery: (1) shower only, (2) shower plus Theraworx wipes, (3) shower plus chlorhexidine wipes Study Design: Single center RCT Sample Size: 500 patients, aged 18+ Objectives: Primary Objectives: 1. Monitor for safety and adverse effects. 2. Evaluate for differences in peri-operative skin cultures between treatment groups; 3. Compare surgical site infection rates between groups. Secondary Objectives: 1. Assess for patient compliance for each different treatment arms. 2. Measure patient satisfaction. 3. Measure nurse satisfaction. 4. Visual assessment of wound healing Expected Results: We expect no statistically significant difference in peri-operative cultures or surgical site infection rates between groups.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03401749
- Recruitment status
- Terminated
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Enrollment
- 203 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 64 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 31, 2018
- Primary completion
- Nov 30, 2020
- Completion
- Nov 30, 2020
- Last update posted
- May 1, 2022
2018 – 2020
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UAB Highlands Hospital | Birmingham | Alabama | 35205 | — |
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- Last update posted May 1, 2022 · Synced Sep 6, 2026
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