About this trial
Study to comparing conventrional antibiotic strategies versus regimens guided by epidemiological surveillance in infected patients with cirrhosis.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Cirrhotic patients with acute decompensation aged ≥18 years.
Proven or suspected bacterial infection requiring antibiotic therapy (diagnosis will be established according to local guidelines, Appendix 1).
Signed informed consent or consent given by their legal representatives or close relatives.
Disqualifiers
Bacterial infection lasting for > 48 hours.
Infection in a critically ill cirrhotic patient (ICU admission). In this population, epidemiological surveillance is standard clinical practice.
MDR colonization or infection in the last month.
Evidence of current locally advanced or metastatic malignancy (patients with hepatocellular carcinoma within the Milan criteria and non-melanocytic skin cancer can be included).
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Conventional antibiotic strategies
Other interventionTreatment according to the local guidelines of the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona.
Regimens guided by epidemiological surveillance
Other interventionTreatment according to the local guidelines of the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona guided by colonization/epidemiological surveillance.
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Probability/rate of participants of developing antibiotic resistance in both treatment arms at 28 days.
Measured by the appearance of new colonizations and/or infections by MDROs.
Secondary outcomes
Probability of antibiotic resistance development during hospitalization in both treatment arms.
Measured by the appearance of new colonizations and/or infections by MDROs.
Rate of antibiotic resistance development during hospitalization in both treatment arms.
Measured by the appearance of new colonizations and/or infections by MDROs.
Rate of MDRO colonization during hospitalization and at 28 days in both treatment arms.
Measured by the appearance of new colonications by MDROs.
Probability of MDRO colonization during hospitalization and at 28 days in both treatment arms.
Measured by the appearance of new colonications by MDROs.
Sponsors and contacts
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Eva Bonfill
Lead sponsor
Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer
Sponsor institution