Seven-versus 14-day course of antibiotics for the treatment of bloodstream infections by Enterobacterales : a randomized, controlled trial

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OBJECTIVE: To prove that 7-day courses of antibiotics for bloodstream infections caused by members of the Enterobacterales (eBSIs) allow a reduction in patients' exposure to antibiotics while achieving clinical outcomes similar to those of 14-day schemes.

METHODS: A randomized trial was performed. Adult patients developing eBSI with appropriate source control were assigned to 7 or 14 days of treatment, and followed 28 days after treatment cessation; treatments could be resumed whenever necessary. The primary endpoint was days of treatment at the end of follow-up. Clinical outcomes included clinical cure, relapse of eBSI and relapse of fever. A superiority margin of 3 days was set for the primary endpoint, and a non-inferiority margin of 10% was set for clinical outcomes. Efficacy and safety were assessed together with a DOOR/RADAR (desirability of outcome ranking and response adjusted for duration of antibiotic risk) analysis.

RESULTS: 248 patients were assigned to 7 (n = 119) or 14 (n = 129) days of treatment. In the intention-to-treat analysis, median days of treatment at the end of follow-up were 7 and 14 days (difference 7, 95%CI 7-7). The non-inferiority margin was also met for clinical outcomes, except for relapse of fever (-0.2%, 95%CI -10.4 to 10.1). The DOOR/RADAR showed that 7-day schemes had a 77.7% probability of achieving better results than 14-day treatments.

CONCLUSIONS: 7-day schemes allowed a reduction in antibiotic exposure of patients with eBSI while achieving outcomes similar to those of 14-day schemes. The possibility of relapsing fever in a limited number of patients, without relevance to final outcomes, may not be excluded, but was overcome by the benefits of shortening treatments.

Errataetall:

CommentIn: Clin Microbiol Infect. 2022 Apr;28(4):463-464. - PMID 34823011

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - 28(2022), 4 vom: 01. Apr., Seite 550-557

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Molina, José [VerfasserIn]
Montero-Mateos, Enrique [VerfasserIn]
Praena-Segovia, Julia [VerfasserIn]
León-Jiménez, Eva [VerfasserIn]
Natera, Clara [VerfasserIn]
López-Cortés, Luis E [VerfasserIn]
Valiente, Lucía [VerfasserIn]
Rosso-Fernández, Clara M [VerfasserIn]
Herrero, Marta [VerfasserIn]
Aller-García, Ana I [VerfasserIn]
Cano, Ángela [VerfasserIn]
Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, Belén [VerfasserIn]
Márquez-Gómez, Ignacio [VerfasserIn]
Álvarez-Marín, Rocío [VerfasserIn]
Infante, Carmen [VerfasserIn]
Roca, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Valiente-Méndez, Adoración [VerfasserIn]
Pachón, Jerónimo [VerfasserIn]
Reguera, José María [VerfasserIn]
Corzo-Delgado, Juan Enrique [VerfasserIn]
Torre-Cisneros, Julián [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez-Baño, Jesús [VerfasserIn]
Cisneros, José Miguel [VerfasserIn]
SHORTEN trial team [VerfasserIn]
Solano, Blanca [Sonstige Person]
González-Galán, Verónica [Sonstige Person]
Hinojosa, Esteban [Sonstige Person]
López-Bernal, Francisco [Sonstige Person]
Suñer, Marta [Sonstige Person]
Noval, José Ángel [Sonstige Person]
Giráldez, Álvaro [Sonstige Person]
Navarro, Antonio [Sonstige Person]
Rodríguez-Hernández, María Jesús [Sonstige Person]
Borrego, Yolanda [Sonstige Person]
Gil, Paloma [Sonstige Person]
Lepe, José Antonio [Sonstige Person]
Morales, Isabel [Sonstige Person]
Retamar, Pilar [Sonstige Person]
de Cueto, Marina [Sonstige Person]
Castón, Juan José [Sonstige Person]
Vidal, Elisa [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Anti-Bacterial Agents
Antimicrobial stewardship
Bacteraemia
Bloodstream infections
DOOR/RADAR
Journal Article
Randomized Controlled Trial
Treatment duration

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Date Completed 05.04.2022

Date Revised 05.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

CommentIn: Clin Microbiol Infect. 2022 Apr;28(4):463-464. - PMID 34823011

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.cmi.2021.09.001

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330510940