Environmental cleaning to prevent hospital-acquired infections on non-intensive care units: a pragmatic, single-centre, cluster randomized controlled, crossover trial comparing soap-based, disinfection and probiotic cleaning.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The impact of environmental hygiene on the occurrence of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) remains a subject of debate. We determined the effect of three different surface-cleaning strategies on the incidence of HAIs.

Methods

Between June 2017 and August 2018 we conducted a pragmatic, cluster-randomized controlled crossover trial at 18 non-ICU wards in the university hospital of Berlin, Germany. Surfaces in patient rooms on the study wards were routinely cleaned using one of three agents: Soap-based (reference), disinfectant and probiotic. Each strategy was used on each ward for four consecutive months (4m-4m-4m). There was a one-month wash-in period at the beginning of the study and after each change in strategy. The order of strategies used was randomized for

SUBMITTER: Leistner R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10113752 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature