Effects of Isolated Rooms on the Prevalence of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia in a Respiratory ICU

Eskisehir Osmangazi University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intensive Care Unit; Pneumonia

Treatments: Other: ward-type ICU

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01250691

HAP-OU-isolation

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will carry out in the ICU. Objectives of the study are to determine the frequency of HAP and the effect of isolated rooms on the frequency of pneumonia in the ICU.

Full description

In the present study, it was aimed to determine the incidence, causative agents, antimicrobial resistance, and risk factors for lower respiratory tract infections in patients followed in the ICU for the last 4 years. The effect of reconfiguration from a ward-type ICU consisting one large room to an ICU with isolated rooms with two beds on the incidence of HAP was also determined.

Enrollment: 532 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult patients,
• admitted to the ICU

Exclusion criteria

• trauma, surgery or burned patients
• patients under 18

Trial design

532 participants in 3 patient groups

hospital acquired pneumonia

isolated rooms

Treatment:

Other: ward-type ICU

ward-type ICU