Efficacy of Intestinal Decontamination in Patients Colonized by Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae and Colistin

Patients Colonized by Klebsiella Pneumoniae. Clinical Trial

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The identification of all cases (44 patients) was carried out from the database of microbiology, University Hospital Reina Sofía and the University Hospital of Jerez. For the identification of controls, in case of neutropenic patients, all colonized patients that were included during the study period did not receive any decolonitation treatment; in case of non-neutropenic patients it was studied a paired control by the presence of risk factors that indicated the beginning of decolonitation treatment.

Clinical Trial Description

n/a

Study Design

Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Retrospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Klebsiella Infections
• Patients Colonized by Klebsiella Pneumoniae.
• Pneumonia

• NCT number: NCT02604849
• Study type: Observational
• Source: Maimónides Biomedical Research Institute of Córdoba
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: July 2012
• Completion date: November 2015