Preventability of Infections in Residents of French Nursing Homes

NAUnknownINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

3,500

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

November 30, 2009

Primary Completion Date

April 30, 2010

Study Completion Date

April 30, 2010

Conditions
Infection Control
Interventions
OTHER

Prevention of infections program

"The intervention mainly involves implementing urinary, respiratory and gastrointestinal infection prevention measures. Study nursing home medical coordinators will be in charge of training their own teams. For this, they will be provided with:~* a slide-show of recommendations (commented by an expert),~* recommendations guides (on paper and on computer) to be shown to their teams. Means will be provided to the intervention nursing homes : Hydro-alcoholic solutions, disinfectant detergent-impregnated tissues, mouth care kits, tec."

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Ministry of Health, France

OTHER_GOV

collaborator

Pierre Fabre Laboratories

INDUSTRY

collaborator

Gaba Laboratories

OTHER

lead

Observatoire du Risque Infectieux en Gériatrie

OTHER