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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03311399
Date of registration: 11/10/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Public title: Using mHealth Technology to Identify and Refer Surgical Site Infections in Rwanda
Scientific title: Using mHealth Technology to Identify and Refer Surgical Site Infections in Rwanda
Date of first enrolment: March 15, 2017
Target sample size: 653
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03311399
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Screening. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Rwanda
Contacts
Name:     Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, PhD
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Affiliation:  Harvard Medical School
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Adult patients that have undergone cesarean-section surgery at Kirehe District
Hospital

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients from Mahama Refugee Camp will not be asked to participate in follow-up
activities due to travel autonomy issues

- Patients that are not residents of Kirehe District

- Patients that have surgery other than cesarean delivery

- Patients that have not been discharged by 7 post-operative days (POD)



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Surgical Site Infection
Intervention(s)
Other: SSI Screening Tool used via phone call follow-up
Other: SSI Screening Tool used in home visits by CHWs
Primary Outcome(s)
Number of patients with SSI returning to care [Time Frame: by 20 days post-surgery]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
2016P001943
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Harvard Medical School
Partners in Health
Ethics review
Results
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