Antimicrobial Resistance Clinical Trial
Official title:
Efficacy and Cost-effectiveness of Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs
The main objective of the project is to evaluate the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of different strategies aiming at optimizing antibiotic prescribing in hospitals. In the first section of the project, the project team intend to map the different antimicrobial stewardship programs in French hospital, by investigating a sample of 30 healthcare facilities, and determine the strategies to be evaluated by the model. The investigators will also evaluate physicians' adherence to the intervention to promote better use of antibiotics and explore potential barriers and facilitators to the implementation of effective strategies.
Context: There is a steady increase of the incidence of multidrug resistant bacteria,
including some which have become extremely resistant, causing infections that are more and
more difficult to treat with antibiotics thus dramatically impairing patient prognosis.
Several guidelines prompt hospitals to set up antimicrobial stewardship programs, with an
antibiotic referrer or a dedicated team as a key component. The aim of the study is to
encourage a better use of antibiotics, and to contain the emergence of resistance.
However, such programs, when they exist, cover multiple organisations and interventions to
improve antimicrobial prescribing, and involve actors from different specialties.
Furthermore, there is little information on how antimicrobial stewardship programs are
actually implemented in hospitals and the impact of these programs has been difficult to
measure.
Many studies, mainly conducted in England and in the United States, have evaluated
interventions to control antibiotic prescription in hospitals. Two meta-analyses conclude
that they are efficient but the variety of the interventions and the heterogeneity of the
obtained results prevent any conclusions on which practices and strategies should be
prioritized when conducting antimicrobial control programs.
The studies conducted so far have been mostly monocentric and have evaluated the impact of
the interventions on a relatively short period of time. Finally, they rarely considered the
costs and the cost-effectiveness of these programs.
More qualitative approaches have highlighted contextual and cultural factors that influence
antibiotic prescribing habits and encourage deliverers to consider these factors when
designing an intervention to promote appropriate antibiotic use. These studies have also
emphasized that prescribers' adherence to guidelines and interventions is a fundamental
factor in the success of any strategy. These aspects have not been explored much in the
French national context.
Objective: The main goal is to evaluate the efficacy and the cost-effectiveness of strategies
to promote appropriate use of antibiotics in hospitals and to identify the most efficient
ones, on a short-term but also long-term scale.
The secondary objectives are 1) to map the different antimicrobial stewardship setups in
French hospitals and determine the strategies to be evaluated by the model; 2) to measure
prescribers' adherence to the different strategies used to control antibiotic prescription,
and 3) to identify potential barriers and facilitators to the implementation of effective
stewardship programs.
Methods: The project team will use modelling methods and techniques which combine a decision
tree and a Markov model to estimate the impact of the different strategies, while considering
the associated costs. To define the different strategies (restrictive, educational or
structural strategies) and to measure clinicians' adherence to the strategy implemented in
their setting, the project team will conduct a survey in a sample of 30 French hospitals
(acute care). During this section, the project team will also collect a certain amount of
quantitative data (antibiotic consumption per molecule, mean treatment length for selected
infections…). These data will help us refine the model's parameters. To supply the model,
other resources will be used : data from the relevant literature, computerized system of
medical databases Outcome measurements: Main objective: A comparison of the different
strategies based on the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), which is defined by the
difference in costs between interventions, divided by the difference in their measured
impact; secondary objectives: accrue high-value information in the field of antibiotic
stewardship, namely physicians' adherence to antibiotic counselling and interventions to
control its use, as well as potential barriers and facilitators for the effective
implementation of such programs.
Study population: Our study is based on modelling patients' hospitalisations and
hospitalisation returns on a hypothetical cohort of patients, over a 10 year period.
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