How to Reduce Unnecessary Blood Cultures: Construction & NCT05686577

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data
NCT number	NCT05686577
Other study ID #	DR200089 (PROBIty)
Secondary ID
Status	Completed
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date	November 22, 2022
Est. completion date	October 25, 2023

Study information
Verified date	February 2024
Source	University Hospital, Tours
Contact	n/a
Is FDA regulated	No
Health authority
Study type	Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Prospective observational cohort consisting of all adult patients admitted to participating critical care units (ICU and CCU) during the study period, with blood cultures collected as part of their care, and who did not express any objection to participating. For each patient, data will be collected prospectively for each blood culture set collected.

Recruitment information / eligibility
Status	Completed
Enrollment	2411
Est. completion date	October 25, 2023
Est. primary completion date	September 27, 2023
Accepts healthy volunteers	No
Gender	All
Age group	18 Years and older
Eligibility	Inclusion Criteria: - Male or female, age 18 years or older - Patient admitted to an ICU or ICU - patient with a blood culture sample as part of care Exclusion Criteria: - Patient already included in this study during a previous hospitalisation - Opposition expressed for participation in the study

Study Design

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Intervention

Other:
• no intervention
no intervention

Locations
Country	Name	City
France	CHU Brest	Brest
France	CHU Dijon	Dijon
France	CHD La Roche sur Yon	La Roche-sur-Yon
France	CH Le Mans	Le Mans
France	CHU Nantes	Nantes
France	CHR Orléans	Orléans
France	CHU Poitiers	Poitiers
France	CHU Rennes	Rennes
France	CHIU Strasbourg	Strasbourg
France	CHU de Tours	Tours

Sponsors *(1)*
Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Tours

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France,

References & Publications (24)

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Lamy B, Dargere S, Arendrup MC, Parienti JJ, Tattevin P. How to Optimize the Use of Blood Cultures for the Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections? A State-of-the Art. Front Microbiol. 2016 May 12;7:697. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00697. eCollection 2016. — View Citation

Laukemann S, Kasper N, Kulkarni P, Steiner D, Rast AC, Kutz A, Felder S, Haubitz S, Faessler L, Huber A, Fux CA, Mueller B, Schuetz P. Can We Reduce Negative Blood Cultures With Clinical Scores and Blood Markers? Results From an Observational Cohort Study. Medicine (Baltimore). 2015 Dec;94(49):e2264. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000002264. Erratum In: Medicine (Baltimore). 2017 Feb 17;96(7):e6197. — View Citation

Leyssene D, Gardes S, Vilquin P, Flandrois JP, Carret G, Lamy B. Species-driven interpretation guidelines in case of a single-sampling strategy for blood culture. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2011 Dec;30(12):1537-41. doi: 10.1007/s10096-011-1257-3. Epub 2011 Apr 18. — View Citation

Lin HH, Liu YF, Tien N, Ho CM, Hsu LN, Lu JJ. Evaluation of the blood volume effect on the diagnosis of bacteremia in automated blood culture systems. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2013 Feb;46(1):48-52. doi: 10.1016/j.jmii.2012.03.012. Epub 2012 Jun 26. — View Citation

McNamara JF, Righi E, Wright H, Hartel GF, Harris PNA, Paterson DL. Long-term morbidity and mortality following bloodstream infection: A systematic literature review. J Infect. 2018 Jul;77(1):1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2018.03.005. Epub 2018 May 7. — View Citation

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Shapiro NI, Wolfe RE, Wright SB, Moore R, Bates DW. Who needs a blood culture? A prospectively derived and validated prediction rule. J Emerg Med. 2008 Oct;35(3):255-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2008.04.001. Epub 2008 May 16. — View Citation

Snyder SR, Favoretto AM, Baetz RA, Derzon JH, Madison BM, Mass D, Shaw CS, Layfield CD, Christenson RH, Liebow EB. Effectiveness of practices to reduce blood culture contamination: a Laboratory Medicine Best Practices systematic review and meta-analysis. Clin Biochem. 2012 Sep;45(13-14):999-1011. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2012.06.007. Epub 2012 Jun 16. — View Citation

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Yamamoto S, Yamazaki S, Shimizu T, Takeshima T, Fukuma S, Yamamoto Y, Tochitani K, Tsuchido Y, Shinohara K, Fukuhara S. Body Temperature at the Emergency Department as a Predictor of Mortality in Patients With Bacterial Infection. Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 May;95(21):e3628. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000003628. — View Citation

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Outcome
Type	Measure	Description	Time frame
Primary	Area under the ROC curve of the predictive performance of the score for predicting bacteremia or fungemia.		day 1- day 28
Secondary	Area under the ROC curve of the diagnostic performance of body temperature to predict bacteremia or fungemia;		day 1- day 28
Secondary	Area under the ROC curve of the diagnostic performance of the Shapiro score for predicting bacteremia or fungemia;		day 1- day 28
Secondary	Proportion of bacteremia or fungemia identified by blood cultures in patients on antibiotic therapy and broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy, and factors associated with these bacteremias or fungemias;		day 1- day 28
Secondary	Comparison of the diagnostic performance of the score in predicting bacteremia or fungemia observed during the first 48 hours of hospitalization to later bacteremias;		48 hours
Secondary	Descriptive study of the contribution of blood cultures, whatever their results, to the prescription of anti-infectives.		day 1- day 28
Secondary	Efficiency of the new predictive score for blood culture positivity in Intensive Care, as compared with body temperature and Shapiro score, measured by two Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratios (ICER): ICER (incremental cost per additional well-detecte	A tree decision model will compare three strategies for predicting positive blood cultures: the new predictive score, body temperature and Shapiro score. Within-trial data will be used to define the model parameters. The model will consider the costs related to the implementation of the strategies, blood cultures, and potential delays in patient management. This will result in the estimation of the two ICERs.	less than 1 month

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How to Reduce Unnecessary Blood Cultures: Construction and Validation of a Predictive Score for Blood Culture Positivity in Intensive Care

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

Study information

Clinical Trial Summary

Recruitment information / eligibility

Study Design

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Intervention

Locations

Sponsors (1)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

References & Publications (24)

Outcome