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NCT number NCT03488355
Other study ID # MUN-3
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date November 5, 2018
Est. completion date July 31, 2019

Study information

Verified date April 2022
Source Memorial University of Newfoundland
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Positive urine cultures collected from indwelling catheters from inpatients will be randomized to standard reporting or modified reporting. Physician antibiotic treatment decisions will be prospectively observed and determined to be appropriate or inappropriate. The hypothesis is that modified reporting will lead to an increase in the percentage of appropriate therapy without an increase in pyelonephritis or sepsis.


Description:

The proposed study is a randomized trial of two methods of laboratory reporting in which physicians are the main research participants. At the time of positive urine culture results, the patient will be randomized by computer generated random number placed into serially numbered sealed, opaque envelopes into two equal groups. One group will receive modified reporting, with a report that states "This POSITIVE urine culture collected from an indwelling catheter may represent asymptomatic bacteriuria or urinary tract infection. If urinary tract infection is suspected clinically, please call the microbiology laboratory for identification and susceptibility results." The other group will receive conventional reporting of identification and susceptibility. Physicians will then have the option of calling the laboratory to receive the results or not. Complete results will be released by telephone and laboratory information system to physicians who call to request them. Physicians will be informed about the study prior to initiation, and debriefed about the study after the results have been collected. Inclusion criteria will include consecutive positive urine cultures collected from indwelling catheters among patients admitted to acute care, that are greater than or equal to 18 years of age. Inpatients must be admitted to Health Sciences Center or St. Clare's Mercy hospitals only, in order to facilitate access to inpatient records. Exclusion criteria will include pregnancy, antibiotic treatment at the time of collection, patients in the Intensive Care Unit and patients with blood neutrophils <1.0 within 7 days, which will help protect immunocompromised individuals. Investigators will review patient charts at 24 and 72 hours and 7 days after collection. After randomization and reporting, a physician investigator will assess inpatients for the true diagnosis of asymptomatic bacteriuria (AB) or urinary tract infection (UTI). Health records will be accessed including demographics, treatment decisions and outcomes (untreated UTI or pyelonephritis). Frequency of physician calls requesting complete reporting will be recorded. The research hypothesis is that restricted reporting will reduce the rate of inappropriate treatment prescribed by physicians. Among inpatients, the expected rate of inappropriate treatment in the control group will be 50 percent, and 20 percent in the intervention group. Accepting a risk of type 1 error of five percent, and a risk of type 2 error of twenty percent, the study will recruit 72 patients. In order to account for missing data, recruitment will be increased to 100 patients. The statistical test to be used is a comparison of proportions between two groups (T test, two sided analysis). An intention to treat analysis including all patients randomized will be performed. Physicians must remain unaware of the research project so that their treatment decisions are unbiased. However, a general notice will be sent to all physicians regarding the study design, and a debrief will be provided in which study results are presented and the option to withdraw data will be provided. This will cause physicians to feel less deceived while still not informing them of the study and thus will not change their behavior. Physicians of discharged inpatients will be contacted at 7 days to assess for adverse events. Because recruitment will be brief, it is unlikely that physicians will have a second patient in the study. Ethics permission will be sought from the local ethics board. Consent of patients or physicians will not be requested. In compliance with ethics requirements, participants will experience no more than minimal risk. If an adverse event occurs, the patient will be removed from the study immediately and given standard treatment. Physician consent will not be requested, as awareness of the study would bias treatment decisions. The benefit of this study to patients includes a reduction in adverse events caused by inappropriate treatment. The risk to patients includes possible untreated UTI. The benefit to physicians includes education toward appropriate treatment of AB. The risk to physicians includes additional effort to access laboratory results for UTI. Data collection will use a paper case report form, and entry into a password protected online database. Analysis will be performed using SPSS 20.0 (IBM). The only expense of the project will be the graduate student to collect the data, perform the analysis and write the manuscript. The manuscript will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at a national conference.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 100
Est. completion date July 31, 2019
Est. primary completion date July 31, 2019
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - consecutive positive urine cultures collected from indwelling catheters in inpatients that are greater than or equal to 18 years of age. - admitted to Health Sciences Center or St. Clare's Mercy hospitals only Exclusion Criteria: - pregnancy - antibiotic treatment at the time of collection - patients in the Intensive Care Unit - blood neutrophils count <1.0 x 10E9/l, within 7 days of urine collection

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Other:
Modified laboratory report
Report from microbiology laboratory: "This POSITIVE urine culture collected from an indwelling catheter may represent asymptomatic bacteriuria or urinary tract infection. If urinary tract infection is suspected clinically, please call the microbiology laboratory for identification and susceptibility results."

Locations

Country Name City State
Canada Health Sciences Center Saint John's Newfoundland and Labrador

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Memorial University of Newfoundland

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Number of Participants With Appropriate Treatment Untreated catheter-associated asymptomatic bacteriurias, plus treated catheter-associated urinary tract infections, divided by total patients. 7 days after positive urine culture
Secondary Death All-cause mortality 7 days
Secondary Adverse Events Number of participants with adverse events. 7 days after positive urine culture
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