Active Bathing to Eliminate Infection (ABATE Infection) Trial
John H. Stroger Hospital
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

      The ABATE Infection Project is a cluster randomized trial of hospitals to compare two quality
      improvement strategies to reduce multi-drug resistant organisms and healthcare-associated
      infections in non-critical care units. The two strategies to be evaluated are:

        -  Arm 1: Routine Care Routine policy for showering/bathing

        -  Arm 2: Decolonization Use of chlorhexidine as routine soap for showering or bed bathing
           for all patients Mupirocin x 5 days if MRSA+ by history, culture, or screen

      Note that enrolled "subjects" represents 53 individual HCA Hospitals (representing ~190
      non-critical care units) that have been randomized.
    
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