Or v IV Antibiotics for Infection
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Official title
Oral vs Intravenous Antibiotics for Treatment of Periprosthetic Joint Infection
Brief summary
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Management of periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) commonly includes 6 weeks of intravenous (IV) antibiotics after surgical treatment. However, there is little evidence to suggest that oral (PO) therapy results in worse outcomes. This study aims to determine whether or not PO antibiotics are non-inferior to IV antibiotics in treating PJI. The study is a multicenter, parallel-group, randomized (1 : 1), open-label, non-inferiority trial. The non-inferiority margin will be set at 10%. Adults with a clinical diagnosis of PJI according to the International Consensus Meeting (ICM) criteria who would ordinarily receive at least 6 weeks of antibiotics and have received ≤ 7 days of IV therapy from surgery will be included. A total of 308 participants will be centrally computer-randomized to PO or IV antibiotics to complete the first 6 weeks of therapy. Follow-on PO therapy will be permitted in either arm. The primary outcome is the proportion of participants experiencing treatment failure within 1 year. An associated cost-effectiveness evaluation including complications, resource utilization and quality-of-life data will be performed.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04723940
- Recruitment status
- Not listed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Enrollment
- 308 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
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Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 24, 2021
- Primary completion
- Jan 24, 2023
- Completion
- Jan 24, 2023
- Last update posted
- Jan 25, 2021
2021 – 2023
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rothman Orthopaedic Institute | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19107 | — |
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- Last update posted Jan 25, 2021 · Synced Sep 5, 2026
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