Birnbach et al. [13]
|
Patient room replica
|
To investigate the effect of the AHRD’s location on hand hygiene compliance (n = 3)
|
intervention study
|
Not applicable
|
hand hygiene compliance
|
Giannitsioti et al. [14]
|
Internal medical unit
|
Not applicable
|
hand hygiene compliance
|
Thomas et al. [15]
|
Surgical ICU
|
Not applicable
|
disinfectant consumption
|
Ben-Abraham et al. [19]
|
Pediatric ICU
|
To investigate the association between single bedrooms versus multi bedrooms and healthcare associated colonization or infection rates
(n = 9)
|
115
|
78
|
Nosocomial infection, bacteremia
|
Bracco et al. [18]
|
Surgical ICU
|
1619
|
903
|
Bacteremia
Acquisition of MRSA/
Pseudomonas
|
Ellison et al. [16]
|
General medical ward
|
910
|
604
|
Infection with or Acquisition of MRSA, CD, VRE
|
Julian et al. [17]
|
Neonatal ICU
|
912
|
884
|
CLOS, Acquisition of MRSA
|
Lazar et al. [21]
|
Pediatric ICU
|
1061
|
3101
|
Bacteremia
|
Levin et al. [23]
|
General ICU
|
62
|
62
|
Bacteremia, Acquisition of any multi-drug resistant organism
|
McManus et al. [20]
|
Burn center ICU
|
914
|
1605
|
Bacteremia
|
Mulin et al. [22]
|
Surgical ICU
|
179
|
135
|
Infection with Acinetobacter baumanii
|
Vietri et al. [24]
|
General medical/surgical ICU
|
130
|
119
|
Acquisition of MRSA
|
Jones et al. [27]
|
Neonatal ICU/Special Care Nursery
|
To investigate the association of space per cot and infection rates
|
Prospective observational study
|
152
|
149
|
Late-onset sepsis
|
Jou et al. [26]
|
All hospital wards except ICU
|
To investigate the association between patient room size and healthcare associated infection rates
|
Case–control study
|
75
|
150
|
Infection with CD
|
Yu et al. [28]
|
All hospital wards except pediatrics
|
To investigate the risk factors for health-care associated outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome
|
Case–control study
|
Not applicable
|
Severe acute respiratory syndrome
|