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Filter by:The population of these monocentric and retrospective study includes patients hospitalized in one of the critical care services of Nîmes' community hospital. The objective is to determine the key factors that lead to satisfactory beta-lactams serum concentrations in critically ill patients. Clinical and biological features, as well as risk scores are collected and recorded into an electronic Case Report Form. The primary outcome is to show the main characteristics related to adequate beta-lactams serum concentrations in critically ill inpatients. Secondary outcomes include the key factors related to inadequate beta-lactams serum concentrations in critically ill inpatients, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) impact in the achievement of target beta-lactams serum concentration and the correlation between Aminoglycosides and Beta-lactams serum concentrations. Do both antibiotics have similar elimination kinetics ?
Liver cirrhosis is a common serious chronic disease. There are about 123 million patients with liver cirrhosis worldwide, and about 1 million people die of liver cirrhosis every year. The proportion of bacterial infection in hospitalized patients with liver cirrhosis is between 25% and 46%, among which spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is the most common type of infection in patients with liver cirrhosis. After early and reasonable diagnosis and treatment, the mortality of cirrhotic patients with SBP can be reduced from more than 90% to about 20%. Therefore, rapid and accurate diagnosis is of great help to improve the prognosis of cirrhotic patients with SBP. However, at present, the traditional detection methods is time-consuming with a low detection rate, and can not detect intracellular bacteria and some other types of pathogens. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a relatively new detection technology which can detect the nucleic acid sequence information in a high-throughput, large-scale way. It can detect the pathogens comprehensively, fast and accurately. In recent years, NGS has gradually transitioned from a research tool to a diagnostic method. Many studies have shown that NGS has better application value in bloodstream infections, ocular infectious diseases, central nervous system infectious diseases and respiratory infectious diseases. However, there is still a lack of research on the use of NGS for the detection of pathogenic microorganisms in ascites. Therefore, by comparing the next generation sequence (NGS) and traditional detection technology in the detection of pathogens in ascites, this study aimed to evaluate the value of NGS in the pathogenic diagnosis of ascites infection.
The aim of this study is to determine whether an intervention with frequent thermotherapy will be able to reduce the amount of colonizing bacteria in the bronchoalveolar lavage sample and eradicate the colonizing bacteria.
French health insurance data indicate that approximately 15% of ambulatory antibiotic consumption is generated by hospital prescriptions. This extra-hospital consumption represents a greater volume than intra-hospital consumption. To date, hospital indicators of good antibiotic use do not include this outpatient dimension. This study will provide a snapshot of the proportion of ambulatory antibiotics generated by emergencies and analyze compliance with management recommendations.This study will serve as a basis for developing indicators of outpatient antibiotic consumption generated by hospital activity and for identifying specific intervention targets aimed at the misuse situations that have been highlighted. This study will be carried out in the form of a repeated survey on a given day (4 days, one across each season), carried out by the local mobile antibiotic therapy team, using a standardized grid. The survey will concern all the medical records of the patients visiting any emergency department on the days of the survey. The evaluation of antibiotic therapies prescribed in discharge orders will be carried out in accordance with local management recommendations by the site investigator (infectious disease and/or emergency medicine specialist), who will assess whether the prescription is in accordance with the recommendations or not.
Take AS04 adjuvanted HPV16/18 vaccine as an example to evaluate the impact of HPV vaccination on HPV infection and related disease burden in the real world based on prospective cohort and Yinzhou Regional Health Information Platform (YRHIP), in order to bridge the gap in relevant evidence in China.
The Pocket colposcope has 510k FDA clearance and has been successfully used in almost 1500 unique patients globally in Duke and non-Duke protocols to date. The objective is to provide colposcopy capability to rural communities in Peru potentially using Telehealth. Approximately 10,000 women will receive self HPV test kit for community health workers. Of these participants, approximately 1,000 HPV+ participants will be invited to participate in this pocket colposcopy study. Approximately 500 of these participants may require treatment using thermocoagulation.
In this study, a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial design is used to evaluate the efficacy and safety of two doses of 9MW1411 injection in patients with ABSSSI caused by S. aureus. The Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) of 9MW1411 injection for this placebo-controlled study is comprehensively selected based on the results of Phase I clinical trials and preclinical PK/PD analysis. Approximately 90 subjects with ABSSSI caused by S. aureus are planned to be enrolled, and the infection type and presence or absence of single S. aureus infection will be used as randomization stratification factors for all randomized subjects. They are randomized in a 1: 1: 1 ratio.
Youth under age 18 involved in the criminal justice system are disproportionately minorities & affected by substance abuse, mental illness, & HIV/STI. Most young offenders are released on community supervision without the STI, mental health, or substance use screening, diagnosis, & treatment afforded detained youth, despite similar rates of risk behavior. Their long-term trajectory is poor, costs to society are high, & lasting effects on community well-being & individual employment prospects are profound. Altering this trajectory is a public health priority. Preventing HIV Among Teens (PHAT) Life is an evidence-based program that meets the need in juvenile justice to address youths' co-morbid health problems. The next step in ensuring that this decade-long line of research produces actual, real-world improvements in the lives of probation youth is to develop a PHAT Life training strategy that is effective, cost-effective, & sustainable within juvenile justice settings. The private/public collaboration between ORBIS & UIC will leverage existing resources & competencies to create a commercially viable technology-based training tool for PHAT Life with great potential for sustainability & cost-effectiveness. This Phase II uses a formative process to refine, enhance & complete the technology-based training tool to include: (a) an interactive multimedia web browser & mobile application, (b) dynamic multimedia presentations & interactive queries, (c) video examples of mock intervention delivery, (d) audio narration along with scripted language, (e) brief quizzes to ensure comprehension & knowledge acquisition, (f) opportunities to "learn more" by clicking on tabs for supplemental information, (g) targeted referrals to appendix materials, (h) games to promote engagement, & (i) other adaptations based on Phase I feedback. The proposed technology-based training tool should be highly sustainable, because it (a) relies on "indigenous" personnel to deliver the intervention, (b) is likely to prove cost-effective since it will utilize a technology that can deliver training at scale, & (c) will improve fidelity by leveraging technology to provide consistent training experiences to para-professionals. The training tool will be evaluated via a 2-arm RCT with 130 individuals who work with justice-involved youth. Trainees will receive the technology-based training tool.
During hysterectomy bacteria may enter into the peritoneal cavity through vaginal opening and contaminate the healing tissues. The risk for deep infection after hysterectomy is about 5%. By reducing post-hysterectomy infections, it is possible to reduce individual burden of disease in addition to the direct and indirect financial costs. This study primary aim is to assess if prophylactic preoperative use of azithromycin in addition to generally used cefuroxime decreases post-hysterectomy infections as compared to cefuroxime only prophylaxis during 30 days after hysterectomy. Secondary aim is to assess if there is change in post-hysterectomy superficial infections, urinary tract infections, or post-operative fever between the cohorts and to report possible side-effects of the used antibiotics. In addition, the study finds out a possible role of bacterial vaginosis and microbiome n post-hysterectomy infections.
Develop an emergency PanorOmics Wide Association Study (ePWAS) for the early, rapid biological and pathophysiological characterisation of known and novel Infectious Diseases in adult patients presenting to emergency departments with suspected, acute, community-acquired respiratory infectious disease (scaRID). Phase 1 1. Develop an ED-ID biobank (named ePWAS-RID). Phase 2 2. Targeted research for the discovery of novel diagnostics, prognostics and therapeutics