Clean Hands Accessible and Manageable for Patients (CHAMPs)
Recruiting
N/A
Interventional Study
Pathogen Transmission
Patient Participation
Aging
No Placebo Group
Every participant receives an active treatment — no one gets a placebo.
Healthy Volunteers Welcome
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
At a Glance
- Age
- 65 and older
- Sex
- Any
- Study type
- Interventional
- Purpose
- Prevention
- Participants needed
- 250 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Case Western Reserve University · Other
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About This Trial
This study proposes the novel use of a bedrail-affixed technology-based patient hand hygiene system with verbal and visual reminders to improve hospitalized older adults' self-management of hand hygiene practice, which in return reduces harmful germs found on older adult's hands that lead to infections.
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Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
1. \> 65 years of age,
2. Admitted to a medical-surgical unit,
3. Expected to be hospitalized for more than 24 hours,
4. Written informed consent within 24-48 hours of admission, and
5. Speak and read English
6. Physical capacity to use the CHAMPs system
7. Sufficient hearing an…
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