PERINATAL TRIALS REPORT

PT0376

TOY Trial

A randomised trial to determine whether toy placed outside premature infants' cots reduce the rate of infection.

Plain Language Summary:      A randomised trial to determine whether toy placed outside premature infants' cot reduce the rate of infection. All the toys brought to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit by the parents will be swabbed, with a sterile cotton tipped swab stick, moistened with normal sterile saline and plated onto 1/3 of the horse blood agar. The infants will then be randomised to have the toy inside the cot or outside the cot. The procedure will be repeated at 4 weeks. The primary outcome will be the rate of infection between the infants with toys in their cot and toys outside their cot.

Trial status:                    Closed to accrual

Date closed to accrual:    April 2004

Trial Objective:

To determine the rate of infection between premature infants with toy in their cot and outside their cot.

Type of administration:      Single centre

Principal Investigator/s:     Professor Colin Morley

                                       Ph 61 3 9344 2524 

                                       Email: Colin.Morley@wch.org.au

Contact Person/s:             Professor colin Morley

                                       As above

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