# Clipping Versus No Hair Removal and the Risk of Surgical Site Infections

> **NCT00975377** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation** · enrollment: 1678 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Surgical Site Infection
- Superficial Surgical Site Infection
- Deep Surgical Site Infection
- Organ/Space Surgical Site Infection

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** Hair clipping

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00975377
- **Lead sponsor:** Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2009-10
- **Primary completion:** 2015-02
- **Final completion:** 2015-02
- **Target enrollment:** 1678 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2015-09-07

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00975377

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00975377, "Clipping Versus No Hair Removal and the Risk of Surgical Site Infections". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-20 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00975377. Licensed CC0.

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