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Post-Discharge Antimicrobial Review for Infections

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Recruiting

Research Sponsored by Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up every 2-week-period through study completion (48 weeks total)

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will test a new method for reviewing and improving antimicrobial prescriptions given to patients after they leave the hospital.

Who is the study for?

This trial is for hospitals where the local stewardship team agrees to try a new method on at least one inpatient service or ward. It's not for hospitals that already have a process to review antimicrobial prescriptions when patients leave the hospital.Check my eligibility

What is being tested?

The study is testing a novel 'prospective audit-and-feedback' approach aimed at improving how antibiotics are prescribed after patients are discharged from the hospital, ensuring better selection and duration of use.See study design

What are the potential side effects?

Since this trial focuses on improving prescription practices rather than administering drugs directly, it does not involve side effects in the traditional sense. However, improved prescribing can reduce unnecessary drug exposure and associated risks.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ every 2-week-period through study completion (48 weeks total)

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~every 2-week-period through study completion (48 weeks total)

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and every 2-week-period through study completion (48 weeks total) for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Post-discharge antibiotic length of therapy

Secondary outcome measures

Inpatient antibiotic length of therapy

Percentage of participants with hospital readmission

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Active Control

Group I: Prospective audit-and-feedback at dischargeExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

When hospitals are in the intervention arm, they will perform the audit-and-feedback process focused on patients receiving antimicrobials who have an anticipated discharge.

Group II: Standard of careActive Control1 Intervention

When hospitals are in the control arm, they will not perform a stewardship process that focuses on hospital discharge.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Centers for Disease Control and PreventionFED

875 Previous Clinical Trials

22,477,392 Total Patients Enrolled

58 Trials studying Infections

219,622 Patients Enrolled for Infections

Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical CenterLead Sponsor

6 Previous Clinical Trials

1,174 Total Patients Enrolled

Media Library

Prospective audit-and-feedback Clinical Trial Eligibility Overview. Trial Name: NCT05471726 — N/A

Infections Research Study Groups: Prospective audit-and-feedback at discharge, Standard of care

Infections Clinical Trial 2023: Prospective audit-and-feedback Highlights & Side Effects. Trial Name: NCT05471726 — N/A

Prospective audit-and-feedback 2023 Treatment Timeline for Medical Study. Trial Name: NCT05471726 — N/A

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Are there still open spots for volunteers in this clinical trial?

"As reported on clinicaltrials.gov, this research study is not presently recruiting participants; it was originally posted in March of 2023 and last updated August 10th 2022. Nevertheless, there are still 771 other studies currently enrolling patients."

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In what locations can this experiment be accessed?

"This research endeavour is currently seeking participants at Audie L Murphy VA Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas; Barnes Jewish Hospital and its associated hospitals in Saint Louis, Missouri; Baltimore VA Medical Centre in Baltimore, Maryland; among other 5 medical institutions."

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Recent research and studies

clinicaltrials.govStudy

Improving Post-discharge Antimicrobial Use

2023. "Improving Post-discharge Antimicrobial Use". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05471726.