Clinical trialNCT00502476UnknownObservational

Multicenter Trial of Daily Chlorhexidine Bathing to Reduce Nosocomial Infections

SponsorHunter Holmes Mcguire Veteran Affairs Medical CenterEnrollment14,000MRSA ColonizationMRSA InfectionNosocomial BacteremiaVRE ColonizationVRE Infection

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Summary

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To determine if daily bathing with chlorhexidine impregnated washcloths will reduce the incidence of MRSA and VRE within an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) or ward setting.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Dave K Warren, MD
Washington University School of Medicine
Principal Investigator
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Debbie Yokoe, MD, MPH
Harvard School of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Principal Investigator
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Edward S Wong, MD
Hunter Holmes Mcguire Veteran Affairs Medical Center
Principal Investigator
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Jane A Cecil, MD
Hunter Holmes Mcguire Veteran Affairs Medical Center
Principal Investigator
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Kent Sepkowitz, MD
Weil Medical College of Cornell University
Principal Investigator
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Loreen Herwaldt, MD
University of Iowa
Principal Investigator
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Maureen Bolon, MD
Northwestern University
Principal Investigator
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Michael W Climo, MD
Hunter Holmes Mcguire Veteran Affairs Medical Center
Study Director
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Trish M Perl, MD, MSc
Johns Hopkins University
Principal Investigator
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Sites

7 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Gary Noskins, MDMaureen K Bolon, MD
Not, yet, recruiting
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Loreen Herwaldt, MD
Not, yet, recruiting
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Trish M Perl, MD, MSc
Not, yet, recruiting
Brigham and Women'S Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Debbie Yokoe, MD, MPH
Not, yet, recruiting
Barnes Jewish Hospital
St Louis, Missouri, United States
Dave K Warren, MD
Not, yet, recruiting
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Gianna Zucotti, MDKent A Sepkowitz, MD
Not, yet, recruiting
Hunter Holmes Mcguire Veteran Affairs Medical Center
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Edward S Wong, MDJane A Cecil, MDMichael W Climo, MD
Recruiting

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 31 Aug 2007
Primary completion: —
Completion: 30 Sept 2009
Last update posted: 7 Aug 2007
Registered enrollment: 14,000
Registry id: NCT00502476

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.