Improving Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Treatment
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Official title
Improving Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Setting
Brief summary
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Purpose The emergence and rapid rise in antibiotic resistance among common bacteria are adversely affecting the clinical course and health care costs of community-acquired infections. Because antibiotic resistance rates are strongly correlated with antibiotic use patterns, multiple organizations have declared reductions in unnecessary antibiotic use to be critical components of efforts to combat antibiotic resistance. Among humans, the vast majority of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions are used to treat acute respiratory tract infections (ARIs) that have a viral etiology. Although the rate of antibiotic prescribing for ARIs by office-based physicians in the US has decreased about 16% from its peak in 1997, the rate of antibiotic prescribing in acute care settings (eg, emergency departments and urgent care centers), which account for 1 in 5 ambulatory antibiotic prescriptions in the US, has shown only a modest decline (6%) during this period. Translation of lessons from intervention studies in office-based practices is needed to improve antibiotic use in acute care settings.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00144040
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 1,000 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Physician & patient education on appropriate antibiotic use Behavioral
- Rapid C-reactive protein testing to guide antibiotic treatment Procedure
Behavioral · Procedure
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Feb 2004 (Type not available)
- Primary completion
- Not listed
- Completion
- Jul 2007 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Apr 7, 2015
2004 – 2007
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 9
- U.S. states
- 8
- U.S. cities
- 9
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA | San Diego | California | 92161 | — |
| Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center, Augusta, GA | Augusta | Georgia | 30904 | — |
| Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital, Hines, IL | Hines | Illinois | 60141-5000 | — |
| Kansas City VA Medical Center, Kansas City, MO | Kansas City | Missouri | 64128 | — |
| New Mexico VA Health Care System, Albuquerque, NM | Albuquerque | New Mexico | 87108-5153 | — |
| James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY | The Bronx | New York | 10468 | — |
| Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
| VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System University Drive Division, Pittsburgh, PA | Pittsburgh | Pennsylvania | 15240 | — |
| South Texas Health Care System, San Antonio, TX | San Antonio | Texas | 78229 | — |
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