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Table 6 Surgical infection prevention information

From: Cluster identification, selection, and description in cluster randomized crossover trials: the PREP-IT trials

Characteristic

Withdrawn cluster

Number of infection preventionists per 250 hospital beds

5

Infection preventionists certified in infection control

1

Perform active surveillance cultures for MRSA in open fracture patients

No

Perform active surveillance cultures for VRE in open fracture patients

No

Perform active surveillance cultures for other organisms in patients with open fractures

No

Decolonization protocol for MRSA

Yes

Policies and/or guidelines on maintaining normothermia during perioperative period

Yes

Airflow system(s) in operating room

Conventional ventilation

Parameters in place in hospital operating rooms

High-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters

Operating rooms are positive pressure

Air changes per hour

Temperature maintained between 20 and 24 °C and humidity between 2 and 60%