Does Cefoxitin or Piperacillin-Tazobactam Prevent Postoperative Surgical Site Infections After Pancreatoduodenectomy?
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Official title
A Phase III Multicenter, Open Label Randomized Controlled Trial of Cefoxitin Versus Piperacillin-Tazobactam as Surgical Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Patients Undergoing Pancreatoduodenectomy
Brief summary
Reproduced verbatim from the official ClinicalTrials.gov record. Not medical advice.
The purpose of this study is to figure out which commonly used antibiotic, cefoxitin or piperacillin-tazobactam, is better at decreasing the rate of surgical site infections after pancreatoduodenectomy.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03269994
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Enrollment
- 967 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Nov 21, 2017 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Jan 28, 2025 (Actual)
- Completion
- Jan 28, 2025 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Oct 21, 2025
2017 – 2025
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 29
- U.S. states
- 18
- U.S. cities
- 27
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center | Sacramento | California | 95817 | — |
| Emory University School of Medicine | Atlanta | Georgia | 30322 | — |
| Northwestern Medicine (Data Collection) | Chicago | Illinois | 60611 | — |
| NorthShore University Health System | Evanston | Illinois | 60201 | — |
| Indiana University | Indianapolis | Indiana | 46202 | — |
| University of Iowa | Iowa City | Iowa | 52242 | — |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston | Massachusetts | 02114 | — |
| University of Washington School of Medicine | St Louis | Missouri | 63110 | — |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center | Omaha | Nebraska | 68198-7680 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (Consent only) | Basking Ridge | New Jersey | 07920 | — |
| Hackensack Meridian Health / Hackensack University Medical Center Cancer Center | Hackensack | New Jersey | 07601 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack (Consent only) | Commack | New York | 11725 | — |
| Memoral Sloan Kettering Westchester (Consent only) | Harrison | New York | 10604 | — |
| Mount Sinai Hospital | New York | New York | 10029 | — |
| Mount Sinai West | New York | New York | 10029 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York | New York | 10065 | — |
| Montefiore Health Systems (Montefiore Medical Center) | The Bronx | New York | 10467 | — |
| Duke University | Durham | North Carolina | 27713 | — |
| Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University | Greenville | North Carolina | 27834 | — |
| Ohio State University | Columbus | Ohio | 43210 | — |
| Providence Health & Services (Portland Med Ctr) | Portland | Oregon | 97213 | — |
| Pennsylvania State Hershey | Hershey | Pennsylvania | 17033 | — |
| Thomas Jefferson University Hospital | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19107 | — |
| Baptist Memorial Healthcare | Memphis | Tennessee | 38120 | — |
| Baylor Scott & White Health | Dallas | Texas | 75246 | — |
| Intermountain Healthcare | Murray | Utah | 84107 | — |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City | Utah | 84112 | — |
| Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation | La Crosse | Wisconsin | 54601 | — |
| University of Wisconsin | Madison | Wisconsin | 53792 | — |
Site contact phone numbers, emails, and investigator names are intentionally not displayed here. Open the official ClinicalTrials.gov record for site contact information.
Non-U.S. locations
This page focuses on the U.S. directory. The official record also lists 3 non-U.S. sites.
About this trial record page
- What this page shows
- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03269994, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
- What this page does not do
- No medical advice, eligibility judgments, treatment recommendations, study quality scoring, or AI-generated medical summaries. No site contact phone numbers, emails, or investigator names.
- Where the data comes from
- Sourced from the official ClinicalTrials.gov public API. The official record is the source of truth.
- Last refresh
- Last update posted Oct 21, 2025 · Synced Oct 22, 2026
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