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Wrenn RH, Slaton CN, Diez T, Turner NA, Yarrington ME, Anderson DJ, Moehring RW. The devil's in the defaults: An interrupted time-series analysis of the impact of default duration elimination on exposure to fluoroquinolone therapy. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2024; 45:733-739. [PMID: 38347810 DOI: 10.1017/ice.2024.16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether removal of default duration, embedded in electronic prescription (e-script), influenced antibiotic days of therapy. DESIGN Interrupted time-series analysis. SETTING The study was conducted across 2 community hospitals, 1 academic hospital, 3 emergency departments, and 86 ambulatory clinics. PATIENTS Adults prescribed a fluoroquinolone with a duration <31 days. INTERVENTIONS Removal of standard 10-day fluoroquinolone default duration and addition of literature-based duration guidance in the order entry on December 19, 2017. The study period included data for 12 months before and after the intervention. RESULTS The study included 35,609 fluoroquinolone e-scripts from the preintervention period and 31,303 fluoroquinolone e-scripts from the postintervention period, accounting for 520,388 cumulative fluoroquinolone DOT. Mean durations before and after the intervention were 7.8 (SD, 4.3) and 7.7 (SD, 4.5), a nonsignificant change. E-scripts with a 10-day duration decreased prior to and after the default removal. The inpatient setting showed a significant 8% drop in 10-day e-scripts after default removal and a reduced median duration by 1 day; 10-day scripts declined nonsignificantly in ED and ambulatory settings. In the ambulatory settings, both 7- and 14-day e-script durations increased after default removal. CONCLUSION Removal of default 10-day antibiotic durations did not affect overall mean duration but did shift patterns in prescribing, depending on practice setting. Stewardship interventions must be studied in the context of practice setting. Ambulatory stewardship efforts separate from inpatient programs are needed because interventions cannot be assumed to have similar effects.
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- Rebekah H Wrenn
- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, Florida
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- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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Mourad A, Smith AG, Troy JD, Holland TL, Wrenn RH, Turner NA. Clinical outcomes in patients with piperacillin/ tazobactam-non-susceptible but ceftriaxone-susceptible E. coli or K. pneumoniae bloodstream infection. J Antimicrob Chemother 2024:dkae134. [PMID: 38708907 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkae134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2024] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/07/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND A small proportion of Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae demonstrate in vitro non-susceptibility to piperacillin/tazobactam but retain susceptibility to ceftriaxone. Uncertainty remains regarding how best to treat these isolates. OBJECTIVES We sought to compare clinical outcomes between patients with piperacillin/tazobactam-non-susceptible but ceftriaxone-susceptible E. coli or K. pneumoniae bloodstream infection receiving definitive therapy with ceftriaxone versus an alternative effective antibiotic. METHODS We retrospectively identified patients with a positive blood culture for piperacillin/tazobactam-non-susceptible but ceftriaxone-susceptible E. coli or K. pneumoniae between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2022. Patients were divided into one of two definitive treatment groups: ceftriaxone or alternative effective antibiotic. Our primary outcome was a composite of 90 day all-cause mortality, hospital readmission, or recurrence of infection. We used Cox proportional hazards models to compare time with the composite outcome between groups. RESULTS Sixty-two patients were included in our analysis. Overall, median age was 63 years (IQR 49.5-71.0), the most common source of infection was intra-abdominal (25/62; 40.3%) and the median total duration of therapy was 12.0 days (IQR 9.0-16.8). A total of 9/22 (40.9%) patients in the ceftriaxone treatment group and 18/40 (45.0%) patients in the alternative effective antibiotic group met the composite endpoint. In an adjusted time-to-event analysis, there was no difference in the composite endpoint between groups (HR 0.67, 95% CI 0.30-1.50). The adjusted Bayesian posterior probability that the HR was less than or equal to 1 (i.e. ceftriaxone is as good or better than alternative therapy) was 85%. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that ceftriaxone can be used to effectively treat bloodstream infections with E. coli or K. pneumoniae that are non-susceptible to piperacillin/tazobactam but susceptible to ceftriaxone.
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- Ahmad Mourad
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham 27710, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatics & Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham 27710, NC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham 27710, NC, USA
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Advani SD, Turner NA, North R, Moehring RW, Vaughn VM, Scales CD, Siddiqui NY, Schmader KE, Anderson DJ. Proposing the "Continuum of UTI" for a Nuanced Approach to Diagnosis and Management of Urinary Tract Infections. J Urol 2024; 211:690-698. [PMID: 38330392 PMCID: PMC11003824 DOI: 10.1097/ju.0000000000003874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024]
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PURPOSE Patients with suspected UTIs are categorized into 3 clinical phenotypes based on current guidelines: no UTI, asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), or UTI. However, all patients may not fit neatly into these groups. Our objective was to characterize clinical presentations of patients who receive urine tests using the "continuum of UTI" approach. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a retrospective cohort study of a random sample of adult noncatheterized inpatient and emergency department encounters with paired urinalysis and urine cultures from 5 hospitals in 3 states between January 01, 2017, and December 31, 2019. Trained abstractors collected clinical (eg, symptom) and demographic data. A focus group discussion with multidisciplinary experts was conducted to define the continuum of UTI, a 5-level classification scheme that includes 2 new categories: lower urinary tract symptoms/other urologic symptoms and bacteriuria of unclear significance. The newly defined continuum of UTI categories were compared to the current UTI classification scheme. RESULTS Of 220,531 encounters, 3392 randomly selected encounters were reviewed. Based on the current classification scheme, 32.1% (n = 704) had ASB and 53% (n = 1614) did not have a UTI. When applying the continuum of UTI categories, 68% of patients (n = 478) with ASB were reclassified as bacteriuria of unclear significance and 29% of patients (n = 467) with "no UTI" were reclassified to lower urinary tract symptoms/other urologic symptoms. CONCLUSIONS Our data suggest the need to reframe our conceptual model of UTI vs ASB to reflect the full spectrum of clinical presentations, acknowledge the diagnostic uncertainty faced by frontline clinicians, and promote a nuanced approach to diagnosis and management of UTIs.
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- Sonali D Advani
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Aging Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Department of Urology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Department Population Health Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Aging Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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Warren BG, Burch CD, Barrett A, Graves A, Gettler E, Turner NA, Moehring RW, Anderson DJ. Racial disparities in Clostridioides difficile testing in three southeastern US hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2024; 45:429-433. [PMID: 37982291 PMCID: PMC11007320 DOI: 10.1017/ice.2023.244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2023] [Revised: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/21/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To analyze Clostridioides difficile testing in 3 hospitals in central North Carolina to validate previous racial health-disparity findings. METHODS We completed a retrospective analysis of inpatient C. difficile tests from 2015 to 2021 at 3 university-affiliated hospitals in North Carolina. We calculated the number of C. difficile tests per 1,000 patient days stratified by race: White, Black, and non-White, non-Black (NWNB). We defined a unique C. difficile test as one that occurred in an inpatient unit with a matching laboratory accession ID and on differing calendar days. Tests were evaluated overall, by hospital, by year, and by positivity rate. RESULTS In total, 35,160 C. difficile tests and 2,571,850 patient days across all 3 hospitals from 2015 to 2021 were analyzed. The median number of C. difficile tests per 1,000 patient days was 13.85 (interquartile range [IQR], 9.88-16.07). Among all C. difficile tests, 5,225 (15%) were positive. White patients were administered more C. difficile tests (14.46 per 1,000 patient days) than Black patients (12.96; P < .0001) or NWNB race patients (10.27; P < .0001). Black patients were administered more tests than NWNB patients (P < .0001). White patients tested positive at a similar rate to Black patients (15% vs 15%; P = .3655) and higher than NWNB individuals (12%; P = .0061), and Black patients tested positive at a higher rate than NWNB patients (P = .0024). CONCLUSION White patients received more C. difficile tests than Black and NWNB patient groups when controlling for race patient days. Future studies should control for comorbidities and investigate community onset of C. difficile by race and ethnicity.
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- Bobby G. Warren
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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Hillenbrand M, Mourad A, Holland TL, Turner NA. Which trial do we need? Percutaneous mechanical aspiration versus medical management alone for treatment of right-sided valvular infective endocarditis. Clin Microbiol Infect 2024:S1198-743X(24)00063-6. [PMID: 38341142 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2023] [Revised: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 02/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
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- Molly Hillenbrand
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA; Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
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Chang-Sing E, Smith CM, Gagliardi JP, Cramer LD, Robinson L, Shah D, Brinker M, Jivalagian P, Hu Y, Turner NA, Wong AH. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patient Restraint in Emergency Departments by Police Transport Status. JAMA Netw Open 2024; 7:e240098. [PMID: 38381433 PMCID: PMC10882414 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.0098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2023] [Accepted: 01/03/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024] Open
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Importance Black patients are more likely than White patients to be restrained during behavioral crises in emergency departments (EDs). Although the perils of policing mental health for Black individuals are recognized, it is unclear whether or to what extent police transport mediates the association between Black race and use of physical restraint in EDs. Objective To evaluate the degree to which police transport mediates the association between Black race and use of physical restraint in EDs. Design, Setting, and Participants This retrospective, cross-sectional study used electronic health record data from ED visits by adults (aged ≥18 years) to 3 hospitals in the southeastern US and 10 in the northeastern US between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2022. Data were analyzed from September 1, 2022, to May 30, 2023. Exposures Race, ethnicity, and police transport to the hospital. Main Outcomes and Measures The primary outcome variable was the presence of an order for restraints during an ED visit. Results A total of 4 263 437 ED visits by 1 257 339 patients (55.5% of visits by female and 44.5% by male patients; 26.1% by patients 65 years or older) were included in the study. Black patients accounted for 27.5% of visits; Hispanic patients, 17.6%; White patients, 50.3%; and other or unknown race or ethnicity, 4.6%. In models adjusted for age, sex, site, previous behavioral or psychiatric history, and visit diagnoses, Black patients were at increased odds of experiencing restraint compared with White patients (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 1.33 [95% CI, 1.28-1.37]). Within the mediation analysis, Black patients had higher odds of being brought to the hospital by police compared with all other patients (AOR, 1.38 [95% CI, 1.34-1.42]). Patients brought to the ED under police transport had increased odds of experiencing restraint compared with all other modes of transport (AOR, 5.51 [95% CI, 5.21-5.82]). The estimated proportion of use of restraints for Black patients mediated by police transport was 10.70% (95% CI, 9.26%-12.53%). Conclusions and Relevance In this cross-sectional study of ED visits across 13 hospitals, police transport may have mediated the association between Black race and use of physical restraint. These findings suggest a need to further explore the mechanisms by which transport to emergency care may influence disparate restrictive interventions for patients experiencing behavioral emergencies.
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- Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Yale National Clinician Scholars Program, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Axfors C, Schmitt AM, Janiaud P, Van't Hooft J, Abd-Elsalam S, Abdo EF, Abella BS, Akram J, Amaravadi RK, Angus DC, Arabi YM, Azhar S, Baden LR, Baker AW, Belkhir L, Benfield T, Berrevoets MAH, Chen CP, Chen TC, Cheng SH, Cheng CY, Chung WS, Cohen YZ, Cowan LN, Dalgard O, de Almeida E Val FF, de Lacerda MVG, de Melo GC, Derde L, Dubee V, Elfakir A, Gordon AC, Hernandez-Cardenas CM, Hills T, Hoepelman AIM, Huang YW, Igau B, Jin R, Jurado-Camacho F, Khan KS, Kremsner PG, Kreuels B, Kuo CY, Le T, Lin YC, Lin WP, Lin TH, Lyngbakken MN, McArthur C, McVerry BJ, Meza-Meneses P, Monteiro WM, Morpeth SC, Mourad A, Mulligan MJ, Murthy S, Naggie S, Narayanasamy S, Nichol A, Novack LA, O'Brien SM, Okeke NL, Perez L, Perez-Padilla R, Perrin L, Remigio-Luna A, Rivera-Martinez NE, Rockhold FW, Rodriguez-Llamazares S, Rolfe R, Rosa R, Røsjø H, Sampaio VS, Seto TB, Shahzad M, Soliman S, Stout JE, Thirion-Romero I, Troxel AB, Tseng TY, Turner NA, Ulrich RJ, Walsh SR, Webb SA, Weehuizen JM, Velinova M, Wong HL, Wrenn R, Zampieri FG, Zhong W, Moher D, Goodman SN, Ioannidis JPA, Hemkens LG. Author Correction: Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1075. [PMID: 38316844 PMCID: PMC10844287 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45360-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2024] Open
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- Cathrine Axfors
- Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department for Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Medical Oncology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
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- Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Vice Chancellor, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Abramson Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Clinical Research Investigation and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- the UPMC Health System Office of Healthcare Innovation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Intensive Care Department, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Public Health, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Infectious Diseases Department, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Center of Research & Disruption of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Elisabeth-Tweesteden hospital, Tilburg, Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Instituto Leonidas e Maria Deane - ILMD, FIOCRUZ-AM, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Intensive Care Centre, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine, and Intensive Care Medicine, Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Critical Care Department, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
- Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Hua Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Changhua, Taiwan
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- Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Critical Care Department, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Department of Preventive Medicine & Public Health, University of Granada, Hospital Real, Avenida del Hospicio, Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon
- German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Tropical Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Pingtung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Pingtung, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Hua Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Changhua, Taiwan
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Division of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
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- Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
- Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- University of British Columbia School of Medicine, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Department of Intensive Care, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Division of Research and Innovation, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
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- Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Fundação de Vigilância em Saúde do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI, USA
- The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Public Health and Community Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- St. John of God Hospital, Subiaco, WA, Australia
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Keelung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Keelung, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Research Institute, HCor-Hospital do Coração, São Paulo, Brazil
- Research Institute, BRICNet-Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network, São Paulo, Brazil
- IDor Research Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
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- National Engineering Research Center for the Emergency Drug, Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Meta-Research Innovation Center Berlin (METRIC-B), Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
- Meta-Research Innovation Center Berlin (METRIC-B), Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
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Gagliardi JP, Smith CM, Chang-Sing EJK, Cramer LD, Robinson L, Shah D, Jivalagian PA, Turner NA, Wong AH. Racial Inequities in Police Transport for Patients to the Emergency Department: A Multicenter Analysis. Am J Prev Med 2024; 66:154-158. [PMID: 37661074 PMCID: PMC10842350 DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2023.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Revised: 08/25/2023] [Accepted: 08/27/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Police involvement in patient transport to emergency medical care has increased over time, yet studies assessing racial inequities in transport are limited. This study evaluated the relationship between race and police transport to the emergency department for adult patients. METHODS This cross-sectional study evaluated adult (aged ≥18 years) visits at 13 different emergency departments across two regional hospital systems in the Southeastern and Northeastern U.S. from 2015 to 2022. Data were extracted from electronic health records. This analysis evaluated the association between race and transport by police transport using generalized linear multivariable mixed model with a binary logistic link for presence of police transport. Data were nested by patient and adjusted for site, demographics, and diagnostic visit characteristics. RESULTS Of 4,291,809 adult emergency department visits, 25,901 (0.6%) involved transport by police. Of the 25,901 visits in police-involved encounters, 10,513 (40.6%) patients were Black, and 9,827 (37.9%) were White. The adjusted model showed that Black patients were at higher odds of transport by police than White patients (AOR=1.64; 95% CI=1.57-1.72). Male sex, younger age (18-35 years), history of behavioral health diagnosis, and emergency department psychiatric or substance use disorders were independently associated with increased odds of police transport. CONCLUSIONS This analysis revealed racial inequities in police-involved transport to emergency medical care, highlighting an urgent need to evaluate drivers of inequities and the ways in which police transport influences clinical outcomes.
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- Jane P Gagliardi
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
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- Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
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- Yale National Clinician Scholars Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Der T, Helmke N, Stout JE, Turner NA. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adult mental health-related admissions at a large university health system in North Carolina - one year into the pandemic. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0293831. [PMID: 38127858 PMCID: PMC10734981 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293831] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE Pandemic-associated stress may have exacerbated preexisting mental health and substance use disorders (MH/SUD) and caused new MH/SUD diagnoses which would be expected to lead to an increase in visits to emergency departments and hospital admissions for these conditions. This study assessed whether the proportion of hospital and emergency department encounters for MH/SUD diagnoses increased during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. METHODS We conducted a longitudinal (interrupted time series) analysis of 994,724 eligible encounters identified by electronic query between January 1, 2016 and March 31, 2021. Of these, 55,574 encounters involved MH/SUD diagnosis. The pre-pandemic period was defined as January 1, 2016 to March 31, 2020, and the pandemic period was defined as April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021. All statistical analyses were performed with R. RESULTS No significant trend in MH/SUD encounters at baseline (rate ratio 1.00, 95% CI 0.99-1.01, p = 0.75) was observed. However, the onset of the pandemic was temporally associated with a significant level increase in the proportion of MH/SUD encounters relative to overall encounters (rate ratio 1.14, 95% CI 1.06-1.21, p<0.001) with no change in the overall trend (rate ratio 0.99, 95% CI 0.90-1.10, p = 0.89). CONCLUSIONS The significant pandemic-associated increase in the proportion of MH/SUD encounters relative to overall encounters was driven largely by sustained numbers of MH/ SUD encounters despite a decrease in total encounters. Increased support for mental health care is needed for these vulnerable patients during pandemics.
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- Tatyana Der
- Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Mourad A, Hillenbrand M, Skalla LA, Holland TL, Zwischenberger BA, Williams AR, Turner NA. Scoping review of percutaneous mechanical aspiration for valvular and cardiac implantable electronic device infective endocarditis. Clin Microbiol Infect 2023; 29:1508-1515. [PMID: 37634864 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2023] [Revised: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 08/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023]
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BACKGROUND Percutaneous mechanical aspiration (PMA) of intravascular vegetations is a novel strategy for management of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) who are at high risk of poor outcomes with conventional cardiac surgery. However, clear indications for its use as well as patient outcomes are largely unknown. OBJECTIVES To conduct a scoping review of the literature to summarize patient characteristics and outcomes of those undergoing PMA for management of IE. METHODS Two independent reviewers screened abstracts and full text for inclusion and independently extracted data. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, Embase, and Web of Science. STUDY ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA Studies published until February 21, 2023, describing the use of PMA for management of patients with cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) or valvular IE were included. ASSESSMENT OF RISK OF BIAS As this was a scoping review, risk of bias assessment was not performed. METHODS OF DATA SYNTHESIS Descriptive data was reported. RESULTS We identified 2252 titles, of which 1442 abstracts were screened, and 125 full text articles were reviewed for inclusion. Fifty-one studies, describing a total of 294 patients who underwent PMA for IE were included in our review. Over 50% (152/294) of patients underwent PMA to debulk cardiac implantable electronic device lead vegetations prior to extraction (152/294), and 38.8% (114/294) of patients had a history of drug use. Patient outcomes were inconsistently reported, but few had procedural complications, and all-cause in-hospital mortality was 6.5% (19/294). CONCLUSIONS While PMA is a promising advance in the care of patients with IE, higher quality data regarding patient outcomes are needed to better inform the use of this procedure.
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- Ahmad Mourad
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
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Doernberg SB, Arias CA, Altman DR, Babiker A, Boucher HW, Creech CB, Cosgrove SE, Evans SR, Fowler VG, Fritz SA, Hamasaki T, Kelly BJ, Leal SM, Liu C, Lodise TP, Miller LG, Munita JM, Murray BE, Pettigrew MM, Ruffin F, Scheetz MH, Shopsin B, Tran TT, Turner NA, Williams DJ, Zaharoff S, Holland TL. Priorities and Progress in Gram-positive Bacterial Infection Research by the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group: A Narrative Review. Clin Infect Dis 2023; 77:S295-S304. [PMID: 37843115 PMCID: PMC10578051 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciad565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2023] Open
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The Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group (ARLG) has prioritized infections caused by gram-positive bacteria as one of its core areas of emphasis. The ARLG Gram-positive Committee has focused on studies responding to 3 main identified research priorities: (1) investigation of strategies or therapies for infections predominantly caused by gram-positive bacteria, (2) evaluation of the efficacy of novel agents for infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and (3) optimization of dosing and duration of antimicrobial agents for gram-positive infections. Herein, we summarize ARLG accomplishments in gram-positive bacterial infection research, including studies aiming to (1) inform optimal vancomycin dosing, (2) determine the role of dalbavancin in MRSA bloodstream infection, (3) characterize enterococcal bloodstream infections, (4) demonstrate the benefits of short-course therapy for pediatric community-acquired pneumonia, (5) develop quality of life measures for use in clinical trials, and (6) advance understanding of the microbiome. Future studies will incorporate innovative methodologies with a focus on interventional clinical trials that have the potential to change clinical practice for difficult-to-treat infections, such as MRSA bloodstream infections.
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- Sarah B Doernberg
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, SanFrancisco, California, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
- Center for Infectious Diseases, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, USA
- Department of Medicine, Weill-Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NewYork, New York, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Tufts University School of Medicine, Medford, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA
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- Biostatistics Center, George Washington University, Rockville, Maryland, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy Practice, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, New York, USA
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- Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA
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- Instituto de Ciencias e Innovación en Medicina, Facultad de Medicina Clinica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile
- Multidisciplinary Initiative for Collaborative Research on Bacterial Resistance, Santiago, Chile
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Pharmacometrics Center of Excellence, College of Pharmacy, Midwestern University, Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- Department of Microbiology, NewYork University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
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- Center for Infectious Diseases, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and the Monroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Holland TL, Cosgrove SE, Doernberg SB, Jenkins TC, Turner NA, Boucher HW, Pavlov O, Titov I, Kosulnykov S, Atanasov B, Poromanski I, Makhviladze M, Anderzhanova A, Stryjewski ME, Assadi Gehr M, Engelhardt M, Hamed K, Ionescu D, Jones M, Saulay M, Smart J, Seifert H, Fowler VG. Ceftobiprole for Treatment of Complicated Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia. N Engl J Med 2023; 389:1390-1401. [PMID: 37754204 DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa2300220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/28/2023]
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BACKGROUND Ceftobiprole is a cephalosporin that may be effective for treating complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus. METHODS In this phase 3, double-blind, double-dummy, noninferiority trial, adults with complicated S. aureus bacteremia were randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive ceftobiprole at a dose of 500 mg intravenously every 6 hours for 8 days and every 8 hours thereafter, or daptomycin at a dose of 6 to 10 mg per kilogram of body weight intravenously every 24 hours plus optional aztreonam (at the discretion of the trial-site investigators). The primary outcome, overall treatment success 70 days after randomization (defined as survival, bacteremia clearance, symptom improvement, no new S. aureus bacteremia-related complications, and no receipt of other potentially effective antibiotics), with a noninferiority margin of 15%, was adjudicated by a data review committee whose members were unaware of the trial-group assignments. Safety was also assessed. RESULTS Of 390 patients who underwent randomization, 387 (189 in the ceftobiprole group and 198 in the daptomycin group) had confirmed S. aureus bacteremia and received ceftobiprole or daptomycin (modified intention-to-treat population). A total of 132 of 189 patients (69.8%) in the ceftobiprole group and 136 of 198 patients (68.7%) in the daptomycin group had overall treatment success (adjusted difference, 2.0 percentage points; 95% confidence interval [CI], -7.1 to 11.1). Findings appeared to be consistent between the ceftobiprole and daptomycin groups in key subgroups and with respect to secondary outcomes, including mortality (9.0% and 9.1%, respectively; 95% CI, -6.2 to 5.2) and the percentage of patients with microbiologic eradication (82.0% and 77.3%; 95% CI, -2.9 to 13.0). Adverse events were reported in 121 of 191 patients (63.4%) who received ceftobiprole and 117 of 198 patients (59.1%) who received daptomycin; serious adverse events were reported in 36 patients (18.8%) and 45 patients (22.7%), respectively. Gastrointestinal adverse events (primarily mild nausea) were more frequent with ceftobiprole. CONCLUSIONS Ceftobiprole was noninferior to daptomycin with respect to overall treatment success in patients with complicated S. aureus bacteremia. (Funded by Basilea Pharmaceutica International and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; ERADICATE ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03138733.).
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- Thomas L Holland
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Nicholas A Turner
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Helen W Boucher
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Oleksander Pavlov
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Ivan Titov
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Serhii Kosulnykov
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Boyko Atanasov
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Ivan Poromanski
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Manana Makhviladze
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Anastasia Anderzhanova
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Martin E Stryjewski
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Maziar Assadi Gehr
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Marc Engelhardt
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Kamal Hamed
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Daniel Ionescu
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Mark Jones
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
| | - Mikael Saulay
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University (T.L.H., N.A.T., V.G.F.), and Duke Clinical Research Institute (T.L.H., V.G.F.) - both in Durham, NC; the Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore (S.E.C.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (S.B.D.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Denver Health, Denver (T.C.J.); Tufts Medicine and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston (H.W.B.); Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv (O.P.), Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk (I.T.), and Dnipropetrovsk I.I. Mechnikov Regional Clinical Hospital, Dnipro (S.K.) - all in Ukraine; Eurohospital Plovdiv, Plovdiv (B.A.), and University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment and Emergency Medicine "N.I. Pirogov," Clinic of Purulent-Septic Surgery, Sofia (I.P.) - both in Bulgaria; LTD Academician Vakhtang Bochorishvili Clinic, Tbilisi, Georgia (M.M.); N.I. Pirogov City Clinical Hospital No. 1, Moscow (A.A.); the Department of Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, Buenos Aires (M.E.S.); Basilea Pharmaceutica International, Allschwil, Switzerland (M.A.G., M.E., K.H., D.I., M.J., M.S., J.S.); and the Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology, and Hygiene, Medical Faculty and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, and the German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne - both in Cologne, Germany (H.S.)
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Turner NA, Krishnan J, Nelson A, Polage CR, Cochran RL, Fike L, Kuhar DT, Kutty PK, Snyder RL, Anderson DJ. Assessing the Impact of 2-Step Clostridioides difficile Testing at the Healthcare Facility Level. Clin Infect Dis 2023; 77:1043-1049. [PMID: 37279965 PMCID: PMC10552580 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciad334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2023] [Revised: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 05/30/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Two-step testing for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) aims to improve diagnostic specificity but may also influence reported epidemiology and patterns of treatment. Some providers fear that 2-step testing may result in adverse outcomes if C. difficile is underdiagnosed. METHODS Our primary objective was to assess the impact of 2-step testing on reported incidence of hospital-onset CDI (HO-CDI). As secondary objectives, we assessed the impact of 2-step testing on C. difficile-specific antibiotic use and colectomy rates as proxies for harm from underdiagnosis or delayed treatment. This longitudinal cohort study included 2 657 324 patient-days across 8 regional hospitals from July 2017 through March 2022. Impact of 2-step testing was assessed by time series analysis with generalized estimating equation regression models. RESULTS Two-step testing was associated with a level decrease in HO-CDI incidence (incidence rate ratio, 0.53 [95% confidence interval {CI}, .48-.60]; P < .001), a similar level decrease in utilization rates for oral vancomycin and fidaxomicin (utilization rate ratio, 0.63 [95% CI, .58-.70]; P < .001), and no significant level (rate ratio, 1.16 [95% CI, .93-1.43]; P = .18) or trend (rate ratio, 0.85 [95% CI, .52-1.39]; P = .51) change in emergent colectomy rates. CONCLUSIONS Two-step testing is associated with decreased reported incidence of HO-CDI, likely by improving diagnostic specificity. The parallel decrease in C. difficile-specific antibiotic use offers indirect reassurance against underdiagnosis of C. difficile infections still requiring treatment by clinician assessment. Similarly, the absence of any significant change in colectomy rates offers indirect reassurance against any rise in fulminant C. difficile requiring surgical management.
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- Nicholas A Turner
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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Copaescu AM, Vogrin S, James F, Chua KYL, Rose MT, De Luca J, Waldron J, Awad A, Godsell J, Mitri E, Lambros B, Douglas A, Youcef Khoudja R, Isabwe GAC, Genest G, Fein M, Radojicic C, Collier A, Lugar P, Stone C, Ben-Shoshan M, Turner NA, Holmes NE, Phillips EJ, Trubiano JA. Efficacy of a Clinical Decision Rule to Enable Direct Oral Challenge in Patients With Low-Risk Penicillin Allergy: The PALACE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med 2023; 183:944-952. [PMID: 37459086 PMCID: PMC10352926 DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.2986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2023] [Accepted: 05/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/20/2023]
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Importance Fewer than 5% of patients labeled with a penicillin allergy are truly allergic. The standard of care to remove the penicillin allergy label in adults is specialized testing involving prick and intradermal skin testing followed by an oral challenge with penicillin. Skin testing is resource intensive, limits practice to specialist-trained physicians, and restricts the global population who could undergo penicillin allergy delabeling. Objective To determine whether a direct oral penicillin challenge is noninferior to the standard of care of penicillin skin testing followed by an oral challenge in patients with a low-risk penicillin allergy. Design, Setting, and Participants This parallel, 2-arm, noninferiority, open-label, multicenter, international randomized clinical trial occurred in 6 specialized centers, 3 in North America (US and Canada) and 3 in Australia, from June 18, 2021, to December 2, 2022. Eligible adults had a PEN-FAST score lower than 3. PEN-FAST is a prospectively derived and internationally validated clinical decision rule that enables point-of-care risk assessment for adults reporting penicillin allergies. Interventions Patients were randomly assigned to either direct oral challenge with penicillin (intervention arm) or a standard-of-care arm of penicillin skin testing followed by oral challenge with penicillin (control arm). Main Outcome and Measure The primary outcome was a physician-verified positive immune-mediated oral penicillin challenge within 1 hour postintervention in the intention-to-treat population. Noninferiority was achieved if a 1-sided 95% CI of the risk difference (RD) did not exceed 5 percentage points (pp). Results A total of 382 adults were randomized, with 377 patients (median [IQR] age, 51 [35-65] years; 247 [65.5%] female) included in the analysis: 187 in the intervention group and 190 in the control group. Most patients had a PEN-FAST score of 0 or 1. The primary outcome occurred in 1 patient (0.5%) in the intervention group and 1 patient (0.5%) in the control group, with an RD of 0.0084 pp (90% CI, -1.22 to 1.24 pp). The 1-sided 95% CI was below the noninferiority margin of 5 pp. In the 5 days following the oral penicillin challenge, 9 immune-mediated adverse events were recorded in the intervention group and 10 in the control group (RD, -0.45 pp; 95% CI, -4.87 to 3.96 pp). No serious adverse events occurred. Conclusions and Relevance In this randomized clinical trial, direct oral penicillin challenge in patients with a low-risk penicillin allergy was noninferior compared with standard-of-care skin testing followed by oral challenge. In patients with a low-risk history, direct oral penicillin challenge is a safe procedure to facilitate the removal of a penicillin allergy label. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04454229.
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- Ana Maria Copaescu
- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Austin Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, St Vincent’s Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Medicine, Austin Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- The National Centre for Infections in Cancer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Medicine, Austin Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- The National Centre for Infections in Cancer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- The National Centre for Infections in Cancer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Center for Drug Safety and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
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- The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, McGill University Health Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Division of Allergy, Immunology and Dermatology, Montreal Children’s Hospital, McGill University Health Centre McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Infectious Diseases, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Center for Drug Safety and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
- Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Infectious Diseases, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Turner NA, Ahmed A, Haley CA, Starke JR, Stout JE. Use of Interferon-Gamma Release Assays in Children <2 Years Old. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc 2023; 12:481-485. [PMID: 37478309 DOI: 10.1093/jpids/piad053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/23/2023]
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While interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs) are widely used for detecting tuberculosis (TB) infection, tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) remain preferred for children under the age of 2 years. The preference for TST stems from concern over IGRA sensitivity in young children. However, TSTs are susceptible to false-positive results following Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination, which is common in infancy, and exposure to nontuberculous mycobacteria. We reviewed available data for IGRA performance in children under age 2 years. Across four cohorts of high-risk children under age 2 (mostly case contacts or those born in tuberculosis endemic regions), 0 of 575 untreated children with negative IGRA test results progressed to tuberculosis disease-including 0 of 70 who were TST positive but IGRA negative. While neither TSTs nor IGRAs are perfectly sensitive for the diagnosis of tuberculosis infection, IGRAs are an acceptable alternative to TST in children <2 years of age.
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- Nicholas A Turner
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Pediatric Infectious Disease and Immunology, Levine Children's Hospital, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Hurst JH, Mohan AA, Dalapati T, George IA, Aquino JN, Lugo DJ, Pfeiffer TS, Rodriguez J, Rotta AT, Turner NA, Burke TW, McClain MT, Henao R, DeMarco CT, Louzao R, Denny TN, Walsh KM, Xu Z, Mejias A, Ramilo O, Woods CW, Kelly MS. Differential host responses within the upper respiratory tract and peripheral blood of children and adults with SARS-CoV-2 infection. medRxiv 2023:2023.07.31.23293337. [PMID: 37577568 PMCID: PMC10418569 DOI: 10.1101/2023.07.31.23293337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/15/2023]
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Age is among the strongest risk factors for severe outcomes from SARS-CoV-2 infection. We sought to evaluate associations between age and both mucosal and systemic host responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection. We profiled the upper respiratory tract (URT) and peripheral blood transcriptomes of 201 participants (age range of 1 week to 83 years), including 137 non-hospitalized individuals with mild SARS-CoV-2 infection and 64 uninfected individuals. Among uninfected children and adolescents, young age was associated with upregulation of innate and adaptive immune pathways within the URT, suggesting that young children are primed to mount robust mucosal immune responses to exogeneous respiratory pathogens. SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with broad induction of innate and adaptive immune responses within the URT of children and adolescents. Peripheral blood responses among SARS-CoV-2-infected children and adolescents were dominated by interferon pathways, while upregulation of myeloid activation, inflammatory, and coagulation pathways was observed only in adults. Systemic symptoms among SARS-CoV-2-infected subjects were associated with blunted innate and adaptive immune responses in the URT and upregulation of many of these same pathways within peripheral blood. Finally, within individuals, robust URT immune responses were correlated with decreased peripheral immune activation, suggesting that effective immune responses in the URT may promote local viral control and limit systemic immune activation and symptoms. These findings demonstrate that there are differences in immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 across the lifespan, including between young children and adolescents, and suggest that these varied host responses contribute to observed differences in the clinical presentation of SARS-CoV-2 infection by age. One Sentence Summary Age is associated with distinct upper respiratory and peripheral blood transcriptional responses among children and adults with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Advani SD, Winters A, Turner NA, Smith BA, Seidelman J, Schmader K, Anderson DJ, Reynolds SS. Using the COM-B model to identify barriers to and facilitators of evidence-based nurse urine-culture practices. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol 2023; 3:e62. [PMID: 37034896 PMCID: PMC10073011 DOI: 10.1017/ash.2023.142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 04/12/2023]
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Our surveys of nurses modeled after the Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation Model of Behavior (COM-B model) revealed that opportunity and motivation factors heavily influence urine-culture practices (behavior), in addition to knowledge (capability). Understanding these barriers is a critical step towards implementing targeted interventions to improving urine-culture practices.
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- Sonali D. Advani
- Division of Infectious diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Geriatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Geriatric Research and Education Clinical Center, Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, North Carolina
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Advani SD, Turner NA, Schmader KE, Wrenn RH, Moehring RW, Polage CR, Vaughn VM, Anderson DJ. Optimizing reflex urine cultures: Using a population-specific approach to diagnostic stewardship. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2023; 44:206-209. [PMID: 36625063 PMCID: PMC9931665 DOI: 10.1017/ice.2022.315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND Clinicians and laboratories routinely use urinalysis (UA) parameters to determine whether antimicrobial treatment and/or urine cultures are needed. Yet the performance of individual UA parameters and common thresholds for action are not well defined and may vary across different patient populations. METHODS In this retrospective cohort study, we included all encounters with UAs ordered 24 hours prior to a urine culture between 2015 and 2020 at 3 North Carolina hospitals. We evaluated the performance of relevant UA parameters as potential outcome predictors, including sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value (NPV), and positive predictive value (PPV). We also combined 18 different UA criteria and used receiver operating curves to identify the 5 best-performing models for predicting significant bacteriuria (≥100,000 colony-forming units of bacteria/mL). RESULTS In 221,933 encounters during the 6-year study period, no single UA parameter had both high sensitivity and high specificity in predicting bacteriuria. Absence of leukocyte esterase and pyuria had a high NPV for significant bacteriuria. Combined UA parameters did not perform better than pyuria alone with regard to NPV. The high NPV ≥0.90 of pyuria was maintained among most patient subgroups except females aged ≥65 years and patients with indwelling catheters. CONCLUSION When used as a part of a diagnostic workup, UA parameters should be leveraged for their NPV instead of sensitivity. Because many laboratories and hospitals use reflex urine culture algorithms, their workflow should include clinical decision support and or education to target symptomatic patients and focus on populations where absence of pyuria has high NPV.
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- Sonali D Advani
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Duke and Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Pathology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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Dougherty J, Turner NA, Yarrington ME, Shaefer Spires S, Moehring RW, Alexander BD, Park LP, Johnson MD. 1570. Cumulative Antibiotic Exposure and Risk for Candidemia. Open Forum Infect Dis 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac492.099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Abstract
Background
Broad-spectrum antibiotic use is a known risk factor for candidemia, but the duration and type of antibiotic exposure associated with greatest risk are not well characterized. Measurements of antibiotic days may be useful to assess cumulative burden of selective pressure on the microbiome and risk for candidemia.
Methods
This retrospective cohort study aimed to quantify the effect of antibiotic exposure on risk for candidemia. The primary outcome was hazard for developing candidemia across an array of antibiotic agents, classes and spectra. We measured antibiotic days of therapy (DOT) for adults admitted to Duke University hospitals 1/1/2016–12/31/2021. We excluded patients with community-onset candidemia, defined as growth of Candida spp. in blood culture collected ≤ 48 hours of admission, because antibiotic exposure prior to arrival was not reliably accessible. Time-to-event analyses were performed using the Nelson-Aalen estimator for modeling cumulative hazard functions to compare the proportion of candidemia observed based on exposure to each antibiotic. Logrank tests were used to evaluate for differences between hazard functions with a pre-specified alpha level of 0.05, and exponential cumulative proportional hazards models were implemented to generalize hazard functions.
Results
During 164,185 encounters in 105,330 unique patients, we identified candidemia in 237 patients. Prior to developing candidemia, cases received a total of 9,604 antibacterial DOT distributed across 46 unique antibiotic agents (Fig. 1) Carbapenems were associated with increased hazard for candidemia compared to beta-lactams (p< 0.005) (Figs. 2–3). There were 57 encounters for candidemia where meropenem was administered with a median of 10 DOT prior to onset of candidemia.
Days of Antibiotic Therapy by Agent and Outcome.
Conclusion
This work represents a novel approach to quantifying antibiotic exposure as a risk factor for candidemia. In an unadjusted model, we identified carbapenems as a high-risk class; additional analysis with adjusted regression models will help contextualize exposure risk with respect to comorbidity and illness severity. This work may serve as a reference for antibiotic stewards as they promote appropriate antibiotic use, including reducing overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics.
Disclosures
Rebekah W. Moehring, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA, UpToDate, Inc.: Author Royalties Barbara D. Alexander, MD, Astellas: Advisor/Consultant|HealthtrackRx: Advisor/Consultant|HealthtrackRx: Grant/Research Support|Scynexis: Grant/Research Support|UpToDate: Advisor/Consultant Melissa D. Johnson, PharmD, Biomeme: Licensed Transcriptional Signature for Candidemia|Charles River Laboratories: Grant/Research Support|Entasis Therapeutics: Advisor/Consultant|Merck & Co. Inc: Advisor/Consultant|Merck & Co. Inc: Grant/Research Support|Pfizer, Inc.: Advisor/Consultant|Scynexis Inc.: Grant/Research Support|Theratechnologies: Advisor/Consultant.
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Advani SD, Turner NA, Schmader KE, Wrenn R, Moehring RW, Polage CR, Vaughn V, Anderson DJ. 190. Performance of urinalysis parameters in predicting significant bacteriuria: Making the case for a population-specific approach to diagnostic stewardship. Open Forum Infect Dis 2022. [PMCID: PMC9752402 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac492.268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Background Clinicians and laboratories routinely use urinalysis (UA) results to help determine if urine cultures and/or antimicrobials are indicated. Yet, the performance of individual UA parameters and common clinical thresholds for action are not well defined and may vary across different patient populations. Our objective was to compare the performance of different UA parameters in predicting significant bacteriuria irrespective of symptoms, and to assess performance of pyuria based on age, sex, and presence of indwelling catheter. Methods This retrospective review of UA and urine culture data from the Duke University Health System included all UAs ordered within 24 hours of a urine culture between 2015 and 2020 (no reflex urine cultures included). We defined significant bacteriuria as a urine culture with ≥1 uropathogen growing at ≥100,000 colony forming units/mL. Then, we used this definition to evaluate the performance of relevant UA parameters and result thresholds including sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value (NPV) and positive predictive value (PPV). We also combined 18 different UA criteria (as shown in Figure) and used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves to identify the top 5 performing models for predicting significant bacteriuria (sensitivity and specificity). 18 Different Combinations of UA Parameters for Predicting Significant Bacteriuria on Urine Cultures
![]() Results Of 240,195 encounters during the 6-year study period, 38% were outpatient and 62% were inpatient. Twenty-nine percent had a urine culture with significant bacteriuria; 30.7% had a negative urine culture. No single UA parameter had both - high sensitivity and high specificity in predicting bacteriuria. Trace leukocyte esterase and low-level pyuria had a high NPV for significant bacteriuria (Table 1A). Combined UA parameters did not perform better than pyuria alone (Table 1B). The high NPV >=0.90 of pyuria was maintained among most patient age and sex subgroups with the exception of females ≥65 and patients with indwelling catheters (Table 2).
Performance of UA parameters in predicting significant bacteriuria, Table 1B: Best performing models by AUROC after testing 18 models ![]() ![]() Conclusion UA parameters should be leveraged for their NPV instead of sensitivity, when used as a part of diagnostic workup. Future reflex urine culture workflows and diagnostic stewardship algorithms should incorporate population-specific UA criteria and/or focus on populations where NPV of pyuria is high. Disclosures Sonali D. Advani, MBBS, MPH, FIDSA, Locus Biosciences: Advisor/Consultant|Locus Biosciences: Honoraria|Sysmex America: Advisor/Consultant Nicholas A. Turner, MD, MHSc, Aperio: Advisor/Consultant Rebekah W. Moehring, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA, UpToDate, Inc.: Author Royalties Valerie Vaughn, MD, MSc, Thermo Fisher Scientific: Honoraria.
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Zavala S, Cox GM, Belknap RW, Smith BA, Lewis SS, Polage CR, Turner NA, Stout JE. 311. Modeling Diagnostic Testing Strategies for SARS-CoV-2 to Minimize Societal Costs and Return People to Work. Open Forum Infect Dis 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac492.389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Background
The shift to more transmissible but less virulent strains of SARS-CoV-2 has altered the risk calculation for infection. Particularly among young adults, the economic burden of lost work due to isolation exceeds the economic burden of morbidity due to infection. Testing strategies must adapt to these changing circumstances.
Methods
We modeled six testing strategies to estimate total societal costs for symptomatic people 18-49 years old: isolation of all individuals with no testing, rapid antigen test (RAg), RAg followed by a second RAg 48h later if first negative, RAg followed by a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) if negative, RAg followed by a PCR if positive, and PCR alone. We calculated costs for hypothetical cohorts of 100 symptomatic healthcare workers tested with each strategy; we included testing costs, lost wages, and hospitalization costs for the index, secondary, and tertiary cases. Key assumptions were 5% prevalence of infection, sensitivity of first/second RAg 40/80% with 97% specificity, PCR sensitivity/specificity 95/99%, all individuals isolate at symptom onset, are tested the same day, and isolate for 5 days if positive. RAg results were available the same day, PCR results were available the next day (Figure 1). One-way sensitivity analyses were performed for RAg sensitivity (20-80%) and positivity rate (1-80%).
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The least expensive strategy was RAg alone (Figure 2). This was primarily driven by its low sensitivity, which reduced lost wages at the expense of missing cases. At a threshold for RAg sensitivity lower than 29%, PCR testing alone became the cheapest strategy. When the positivity rate was > 6% confirming a negative RAg with a PCR became the cheapest strategy, closely followed by PCR alone. At a positivity rate of > 29%, isolation without testing was cheapest followed by confirming a negative RAg with a PCR and by the serial RAg test strategies (Figure 3).
Conclusion
In relatively young, healthy populations, a single rapid test was the least expensive strategy when the positivity rate was < 6%, testing that included PCR became cheapest at intermediate positivity, and empiric isolation was cheapest at positivity > 29%. Calibrating SARS-CoV-2 test strategies based on epidemiology may save societal costs.
Disclosures
Nicholas A. Turner, MD, MHSc, Aperio: Advisor/Consultant.
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- Sofia Zavala
- Duke University Medical Center , Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke University Medical Center , Durham, North Carolina
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- University of Colorado-Denver Anschutz Medical Campus , Denver, Colorado
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- Duke University Medical Center , Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke University School of Medicine , Durham, North Carolina
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Holland TL, Cosgrove SE, Doernberg SB, Pavlov O, Titov I, Atanasov B, Gehr MA, Engelhardt M, Hamed K, Ionescu D, Jones M, Sauley M, Smart J, Seifert H, Jenkins TC, Turner NA, Fowler VG. LB2302. Ceftobiprole Compared to Daptomycin With or Without Optional Aztreonam for the Treatment of Complicated Staphylococcus aureus (SAB): Results of a Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind Trial (ERADICATE). Open Forum Infect Dis 2022; 9:ofac492.1892. [PMCID: PMC9752497 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac492.1892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Background SAB is common, serious, and potentially lethal. Antibiotic options are limited, especially for MRSA. Ceftobiprole is an advanced-generation cephalosporin with bactericidal activity against Gram-positive (including MRSA) and Gram-negative pathogens, with efficacy and safety demonstrated in previous Phase 3 studies in acute bacterial skin infections and pneumonia. The present study evaluated ceftobiprole in patients with complicated SAB. Methods ERADICATE was a randomized (1:1), double-blind, multicenter, Phase 3, non-inferiority trial comparing ceftobiprole (BPR) vs daptomycin (DAP) ± optional aztreonam, for up to 42 days of treatment, in patients with complicated SAB (NCT03138733). The primary efficacy endpoint was overall clinical success 70 days post-randomization, adjudicated by a blinded independent Data Review Committee. Success required survival, no new SAB complications, symptom improvement, SAB clearance, and no receipt of other potentially effective antibiotics. The non-inferiority margin for the difference in success rates was -15% (BPR-DAP, 95% CI, 2-sided, lower bound). Safety was assessed through adverse events (AE) and laboratory data. Results Of 390 patients randomized, 387 (189 BPR, 198 DAP) were in the modified intent-to-treat (mITT) population who received study medication and had a positive baseline blood culture for S. aureus (94 MRSA). Median treatment duration was 21 days for both groups. Key baseline characteristics were balanced (Fig. 1). In the BPR group 69.8% experienced success, compared to 68.7% for DAP (adjusted difference 2.0%, 95% CI -7.1% to 11.1%, Fig. 2). There were no significant differences in mortality, microbiological eradication, or in key subgroup analyses (Fig. 3). The proportion of patients experiencing ≥1 AE was 63% for BPR and 59% for DAP. Treatment-related severe or serious AEs were infrequent. Gastrointestinal AEs, mostly mild nausea, were more frequent with BPR, consistent with data from previous Phase 3 studies.
![]() ![]() ![]() Conclusion Ceftobiprole is non-inferior to daptomycin for overall success in patients with complicated SAB. All-cause mortality, microbiological eradication rates and new SAB complications were similar between treatment groups. Both treatments were well tolerated. Disclosures Thomas L. Holland, MD, Aridis: Advisor/Consultant|Basilea Pharmaceutica: Advisor/Consultant|Karius: Advisor/Consultant|Lysovant: Advisor/Consultant Sara E. Cosgrove, MD, Basilea: Advisor/Consultant|Debiopharma: Advisor/Consultant Sarah B. Doernberg, MD, MAS, Basilea: Advisor/Consultant|Genentech: Advisor/Consultant|Gilead: Grant/Research Support|Johnson and Johnson: Advisor/Consultant|NIH: Grant/Research Support|Regeneron: Grant/Research Support Maziar Assadi Gehr, MD, Basilea Pharmaceutica: full time employee of Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd Marc Engelhardt, MD, Basilea Pharmaceutica: full time employee of Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd Kamal Hamed, MD, Basilea Pharmaceutica: previous full time employee of Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd|Lysovant: full time employee of Lysovant Daniel Ionescu, MD, Basilea Pharmaceutica: full time employee of Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd Mark Jones, PhD, Basilea Pharmaceutica: full time employee of Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd Mikael Sauley, MSc, Basilea Pharmaceutica: full time employee of Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd Jennifer Smart, PhD, Basilea Pharmaceutica: full time employee of Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd Harald Seifert, MD, Basilea Pharmaceutica: Advisor/Consultant|Debiopharm: Advisor/Consultant|Eumedica: Advisor/Consultant|Gilead: Advisor/Consultant|MSD: Advisor/Consultant|Shionogi: Advisor/Consultant Timothy C. Jenkins, MD, Basilea: Clinical outcomes adjudication committee Vance G. Fowler, Jr, MD, MHS, Armata Valanbio Akagera Aridis Roche: Advisor/Consultant|BASILEA: Grant/Research Support|Basilea Novartis Debiopharm Genentech: Advisor/Consultant|MedImmune Bayer Janssen Contrafect Regeneron Destiny Amphliphi Integrated Bioth: Advisor/Consultant|NIH MedImmune Allergan Theravance Novartis Merck Contrafect Karius Genentech Regeneron Janssen: Grant/Research Support.
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- Johns Hopkins University Department of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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- Zaycev V.T. Institute of General and Emergency Surgery of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Kharkiv, Kharkivs’ka Oblast', Ukraine
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- Regional Clinical Hospital, Regional Clinical Hospital, Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Council, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivs’ka Oblast', Ukraine
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- Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd, Allschwil, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
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- Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd, Allschwil, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
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- Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd, Allschwil, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
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- Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd, Allschwil, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
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- Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd, Allschwil, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
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- Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd, Allschwil, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
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- Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd, Allschwil, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, University of Cologne, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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Warren BG, Barrett A, Graves A, King C, Turner NA, Anderson DJ. An Enhanced Strategy for Daily Disinfection in Acute Care Hospital Rooms: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Netw Open 2022; 5:e2242131. [PMID: 36378308 PMCID: PMC9667331 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.42131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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IMPORTANCE Environmental contamination is a source of transmission between patients, health care practitioners, and other stakeholders in the acute care setting. OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of an enhanced daily disinfection strategy vs standard disinfection in acute care hospital rooms. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This randomized clinical trial (RCT) was conducted in acute care hospital rooms at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, from November 2021 to March 2022. Rooms were occupied by patients with contact precautions. Room surfaces (bed rails, overbed table, and in-room sink) were divided into 2 sides (right vs left), allowing each room to serve as its own control. Each side was randomized 1:1 to the intervention group or control group. INTERVENTIONS The intervention was a quaternary ammonium, salt-based, 24-hour continuously active germicidal wipe. It was applied in addition to routine disinfection for the intervention group. The control group received no intervention beyond routine disinfection. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES The primary outcome was the total contamination, measured in colony-forming units (CFUs) on the bed rails, overbed table, and sink on study day 1. The secondary outcomes were the proportion of sample areas with positive test results for clinically important pathogens, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae; the similarity in baseline contamination between sample area sides on study day 0 before application of the intervention, and the proportion of sample areas with removed UV luminescent gel on study day 1. RESULTS A total of 50 study rooms occupied by 50 unique patients (median [IQR] age, 61 [45-69] years; 26 men [52%]) with contact precautions were enrolled. Of these patients, 41 (82%) were actively receiving antibiotics, 39 (78%) were bedridden, and 28 (56%) had active infections with study-defined clinically important pathogens. On study day 1, the median (IQR) total CFUs for the intervention group was lower than that for the control group (3561 [1292-7602] CFUs vs 5219 [1540-12 364] CFUs; P = .002). On study day 1, the intervention side was less frequently contaminated with patient-associated clinically important pathogens compared with the control side of the room (4 [14%] vs 11 [39%]; P = .04). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Results of this RCT demonstrated that a quaternary ammonium, salt-based, 24-hour continuously active germicidal wipe decreased the environmental bioburden in acute care hospital rooms compared with routine disinfection. The findings warrant large-scale RCTs to determine whether enhanced daily disinfection strategies can decrease patient acquisition and adverse patient outcomes. TRIAL REGISTRATION ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05560321.
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- Bobby G. Warren
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
- Disinfection, Resistance and Transmission Epidemiology (DiRTE) Lab, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
- Disinfection, Resistance and Transmission Epidemiology (DiRTE) Lab, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
- Disinfection, Resistance and Transmission Epidemiology (DiRTE) Lab, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
- Disinfection, Resistance and Transmission Epidemiology (DiRTE) Lab, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
- Disinfection, Resistance and Transmission Epidemiology (DiRTE) Lab, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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Copaescu AM, James F, Vogrin S, Rose M, Chua K, Holmes NE, Turner NA, Stone C, Phillips E, Trubiano J. Use of a penicillin allergy clinical decision rule to enable direct oral penicillin provocation: an international multicentre randomised control trial in an adult population (PALACE): study protocol. BMJ Open 2022; 12:e063784. [PMID: 35940831 PMCID: PMC9364402 DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063784] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Penicillin allergies are highly prevalent in the healthcare setting and associated with the prescription of second-line inferior antibiotics. More than 85% of all penicillin allergy labels can be removed by skin testing and 96%-99% of low-risk penicillin allergy labels can be removed by direct oral challenge. An internally and externally validated clinical assessment tool for penicillin allergy, PEN-FAST, can identify a low-risk penicillin allergy without the need for skin testing; a score of less than 3 has a negative predictive value of 96.3% (95% CI, 94.1 to 97.8) for the presence of a penicillin allergy. It is hypothesised that PEN-FAST is a safe and effective tool for assessing penicillin allergy in an outpatient clinic setting. METHODS AND ANALYSIS This is an international, multicentre randomised control trial using the PEN-FAST tool to risk-stratify penicillin allergy labels in adult outpatients. The study's primary objective is to evaluate the non-inferiority of using PEN-FAST score-guided management with direct oral challenge compared with standard care (defined as prick and intradermal skin testing followed by oral penicillin challenge). Participants will be randomised 1:1 to the intervention arm (direct oral penicillin challenge) or standard of care arm (skin testing followed by oral penicillin challenge, if skin testing is negative). The sample size of 380 randomised patients (190 per treatment arm) is required to demonstrate non-inferiority. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION The study will be performed according to the guidelines of the Helsinki Declaration and is approved by the Austin Health Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC/62425/Austin-2020) in Melbourne Australia, Vanderbilt University Institutional Review Board (IRB #202174) in Tennessee, USA, Duke University Institutional Review Board (IRB #Pro00108461) in North Carolina, USA and McGill University Health Centre Research Ethics Board in Canada (PALACE/2022-7605). The results of this study will be published and presented in various scientific forums. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER NCT04454229.
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- Ana-Maria Copaescu
- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Medicine, Austin Health, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Critical Care, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, Carolina, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Institute for Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia
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- Centre for Antibiotic Allergy and Research, Department of Infectious Diseases, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Medicine, Austin Health, University of Melbourne, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
- The National Centre for Infections in Cancer, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Halabi S, Zhou J, He Y, Bressler LR, Hernandez AF, Turner NA, Hong H. Landscape of coronavirus disease 2019 clinical trials: New frontiers and challenges. Clin Trials 2022; 19:561-572. [PMID: 35786000 DOI: 10.1177/17407745221105106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND/AIM The number of coronavirus disease 2019 deaths and cases continues to increase globally. Novel therapies are urgently needed to treat patients with coronavirus disease 2019. We sought to provide a critical review of trials designed during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Our primary goal was to provide a critical review of the landscape of clinical trials designed to address the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Specifically, we were interested in assessing the design of phase II/III and phase III interventional trials. METHODS We utilized the ClinicalTrials.gov database to include trials registered between 1 December 2019 and 11 April 2021 to survey the current landscape of clinical trials for coronavirus disease 2019. Variables extracted included: National Clinical Trial number, title, location, sponsor, study type, start date, completion date, gender group, age group, primary outcome, secondary outcome, overall status, and associated references. RESULTS About 57% of studies were interventional, 14.5% were phase III trials, and the majority of the therapeutic trials included hospitalized patients. There were 52 primary composite outcomes and 285 unique interventions spanning 10 drug classes. The outcomes, disease severity, and comparators varied substantially across trials, and the trials were often too small to be definitive. CONCLUSION These findings are relevant as we strongly advocate for global coordination of efforts through the use of common platforms that enable harmonizing of endpoints, collection of common key variables and clear definition of disease severity to have clinically meaningful results from clinical trials.
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- Susan Halabi
- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke Health, Durham, NC, USA.,Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke Health, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke Health, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke Health, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke Health, Durham, NC, USA.,Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke Health, Durham, NC, USA
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Smith CM, Turner NA, Thielman NM, Tweedy DS, Egger J, Gagliardi JP. Association of Black Race With Physical and Chemical Restraint Use Among Patients Undergoing Emergency Psychiatric Evaluation. Psychiatr Serv 2022; 73:730-736. [PMID: 34932385 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.202100474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Few studies have examined the disproportionate use of restraints for Black adults receiving emergency psychiatric care. This study sought to determine whether the odds of physical and chemical restraint use were higher for Black patients undergoing emergency psychiatric care compared with their White counterparts. METHODS This single-center retrospective cohort study examined 12,977 unique encounters of adults receiving an emergency psychiatric evaluation between January 1, 2014, and September 18, 2020, at a large academic medical center in Durham, North Carolina. Self-reported race categories were extracted from the electronic medical record. Primary outcomes were the presence of a behavioral physical restraint order or chemical restraint administration during the emergency department encounter. Covariates included age, sex, ethnicity, height, time of arrival, positive urine drug screen results, peak blood alcohol concentration, and diagnosis of a bipolar or psychotic disorder. RESULTS A total of 961 (7.4%) encounters involved physical restraint, and 2,047 (15.8%) involved chemical restraint. Models with and without a race covariate were compared by using quasi-likelihood information criterion scores; in each instance, the model with race performed better than the model without. Black patients were more likely to be physically (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]=1.35; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.07-1.72) and chemically (AOR=1.33; 95% CI=1.15-1.55) restrained than White patients. CONCLUSIONS After analyses were adjusted for measured confounders, Black patients undergoing psychiatric evaluation were at higher odds of experiencing physical or chemical restraint compared with White patients, which is consistent with the growing body of evidence revealing racial disparities in psychiatric care.
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- Colin M Smith
- Department of Medicine (Smith, Turner, Thielman, Gagliardi), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Smith, Tweedy, Gagliardi), and Duke Global Health Institute (Thielman, Egger), Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Medicine (Smith, Turner, Thielman, Gagliardi), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Smith, Tweedy, Gagliardi), and Duke Global Health Institute (Thielman, Egger), Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Medicine (Smith, Turner, Thielman, Gagliardi), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Smith, Tweedy, Gagliardi), and Duke Global Health Institute (Thielman, Egger), Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Medicine (Smith, Turner, Thielman, Gagliardi), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Smith, Tweedy, Gagliardi), and Duke Global Health Institute (Thielman, Egger), Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Medicine (Smith, Turner, Thielman, Gagliardi), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Smith, Tweedy, Gagliardi), and Duke Global Health Institute (Thielman, Egger), Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Medicine (Smith, Turner, Thielman, Gagliardi), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Smith, Tweedy, Gagliardi), and Duke Global Health Institute (Thielman, Egger), Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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Turner NA, Xu A, Zaharoff S, Holland TL, Lodise TP. Determination of plasma protein binding of dalbavancin. J Antimicrob Chemother 2022; 77:1899-1902. [PMID: 35488862 PMCID: PMC9633717 DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkac131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/22/2022] [Indexed: 09/20/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVES Dalbavancin is a lipoglycopeptide with a long half-life, making it a promising treatment for infections requiring prolonged therapy, such as complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia. Free drug concentration is a critical consideration with prolonged treatment, since free concentration-time profiles may best correlate with therapeutic effect. In support of future clinical trials, we aimed to develop a reliable and reproducible assay for measuring free dalbavancin concentrations. METHODS The ultracentrifugation technique was used to determine free dalbavancin concentrations in plasma at two concentrations (50 and 200 mg/L) in duplicate. Centrifuge tubes and pipette tips were treated for 24 h before use with Tween 80 to assess adsorption. Dalbavancin concentrations were analysed from the plasma samples (total) and middle layer samples (free) by LC/MS/MS with isotopically labelled internal standard. Warfarin served as a positive control with known high protein binding. RESULTS Measurement of free dalbavancin was sensitive to adsorption onto plastic. Treatment of tubes and pipette tips with ≥2% Tween 80 effectively prevented drug loss during protein binding experiments. By the ultracentrifugation method, dalbavancin's protein binding was estimated to be approximately 99%. CONCLUSIONS Dalbavancin has very high protein binding. Given dalbavancin's high protein binding, accurate measurement of free dalbavancin concentrations should be a key consideration in future exposure-response studies, especially clinical trials. Future investigations should confirm if the active fraction is best predicted by the free or total fraction.
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- Nicholas A Turner
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Keystone Bioanalytical, North Wales, PA, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
- Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA
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- Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, NY, USA
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Turner NA, Zaharoff S, King H, Evans S, Hamasaki T, Lodise T, Ghazaryan V, Beresnev T, Riccobene T, Patel R, Doernberg SB, Rappo U, Fowler VG, Holland TL. Dalbavancin as an option for treatment of S. aureus bacteremia (DOTS): study protocol for a phase 2b, multicenter, randomized, open-label clinical trial. Trials 2022; 23:407. [PMID: 35578360 PMCID: PMC9109297 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-022-06370-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2022] [Accepted: 04/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Background Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia is a life-threatening infection and leading cause of infective endocarditis, with mortality rates of 15–50%. Treatment typically requires prolonged administration of parenteral therapy, itself associated with high costs and potential catheter-associated complications. Dalbavancin is a lipoglycopeptide with potent activity against Staphylococcus and a long half-life, making it an appealing potential therapy for S. aureus bacteremia without the need for durable central venous access. Methods DOTS is a phase 2b, multicenter, randomized, assessor-blinded, superiority, active-controlled, parallel-group trial. The trial will enroll 200 adults diagnosed with complicated S. aureus bacteremia, including definite or possible right-sided infective endocarditis, who have been treated with effective antibiotic therapy for at least 72 h (maximum 10 days) and with subsequent clearance of bacteremia prior to randomization to study treatment. Subjects will be randomized 1:1 to complete their antibiotic treatment course with either two doses of dalbavancin on days 1 and 8, or with a total of 4–8 weeks of standard intravenous antibiotic therapy. The primary objective is to compare the Desirability of Outcome Ranking (DOOR) at day 70 for patients randomized to dalbavancin versus standard of care. Key secondary endpoints include quality of life outcomes and pharmacokinetic analyses of dalbavancin. Discussion The DOTS trial will establish whether dalbavancin is superior to standard parenteral antibiotic therapy for the completion of treatment of complicated S. aureus bacteremia. Trial registration US National Institutes of Health ClinicalTrials.govNCT04775953. Registered on 1 March 2021
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Spivey J, Deri CR, Wrenn RH, Turner NA. Impact of
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Allergy assessments and penicillin skin testing are associated with reductions in high‐Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI)‐risk antibiotic use and lower hospital‐acquired CDI rates; however, these activities require substantial personnel and resource allocation. Recently, many antimicrobial stewardship programs’ (ASPs) focus shifted towards supporting the COVID‐19 pandemic response. We evaluated the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on a pharmacist‐led allergy assessment and penicillin skin testing program. Patients undergoing allergy assessment and/or penicillin skin testing (PST) from 1 January 2017 through 30 April 2021 were included for review. Monthly PST and allergy assessment rates were calculated and defined as the number of PSTs or allergy assessments per 1000 unique patient encounters for each month, respectively. The study used interrupted time series regression to assess potential level and slope changes in allergy assessments and PSTs during the pandemic. 200 058 total inpatient encounters by 188 867 unique patients occurred during the study period. ASP performed 918 allergy assessments and 204 PSTs. The local onset of the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic during March 2020 was associated with significant level reductions in allergy assessments and PSTs. Additional responsibilities added to the ASP team during the COVID‐19 pandemic limited the ability to perform core antimicrobial stewardship activities with proven patient care benefits.
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- Justin Spivey
- Department of Pharmacy Duke University Hospital Durham USA
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- Department of Pharmacy Duke University Hospital Durham USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine Duke University School of Medicine Durham USA
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Narayanasamy S, Mourad A, Turner NA, Le T, Rolfe RJ, Okeke NL, O'Brien SM, Baker AW, Wrenn R, Rosa R, Rockhold FW, Naggie S, Stout JE. COVID-19 Trials: Who Participates and Who Benefits? South Med J 2022; 115:256-261. [PMID: 35365841 PMCID: PMC8945389 DOI: 10.14423/smj.0000000000001374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on older adults and racial and ethnic minority individuals in the United States. This article reviews a COVID-19 therapeutics trial conducted at the authors’ institution to examine the low enrollment of groups particularly vulnerable to COVID-19. They reflect on the potential lack of impact that effective COVID-19 therapeutics may have on mortality if vulnerable groups are not enrolled in trials. Objectives The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately afflicted vulnerable populations. Older adults, particularly residents of nursing facilities, represent a small percentage of the population but account for 40% of mortality from COVID-19 in the United States. Racial and ethnic minority individuals, particularly Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous Americans have experienced higher rates of infection and death than the White population. Although there has been an unprecedented explosion of clinical trials to examine potential therapies, participation by members of these vulnerable communities is crucial to obtaining data generalizable to those communities. Methods We undertook an open-label, factorial randomized clinical trial examining hydroxychloroquine and/or azithromycin for hospitalized patients. Results Of 53 screened patients, 11 (21%) were enrolled. Ten percent (3/31) of Black patients were enrolled, 33% (7/21) of White patients, and 50% (6/12) of Hispanic patients. Forty-seven percent (25/53) of patients declined participation despite eligibility; 58%(18/31) of Black patients declined participation. Forty percent (21/53) of screened patients were from a nursing facility and 10% (2/21) were enrolled. Enrolled patients had fewer comorbidities than nonenrolled patients: median modified Charlson comorbidity score 2.0 (interquartile range 0–2.5), versus 4.0 (interquartile range 2–6) for nonenrolled patients (P = 0.006). The limitations of the study were the low participation rate and the multiple treatment trials concurrently recruiting at our institution. Conclusions The high rate of nonparticipation in our trial of nursing facility residents and Black people emphasizes the concern that clinical trials for therapeutics may not target key populations with high mortality rates.
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- Shanti Narayanasamy
- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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- From the Division of Infectious Diseases and Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, and UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, Iowa
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Hurst JH, McCumber AW, Aquino JN, Rodriguez J, Heston SM, Lugo DJ, Rotta AT, Turner NA, Pfeiffer TS, Gurley TC, Moody MA, Denny TN, Rawls JF, Clark JS, Woods CW, Kelly MS. Age-Related Changes in the Nasopharyngeal Microbiome Are Associated With Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection and Symptoms Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults. Clin Infect Dis 2022; 75:e928-e937. [PMID: 35247047 PMCID: PMC8903463 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2021] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Children are less susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 infection and typically have milder illness courses than adults, but the factors underlying these age-associated differences are not well understood. The upper respiratory microbiome undergoes substantial shifts during childhood and is increasingly recognized to influence host defense against respiratory pathogens. Thus, we sought to identify upper respiratory microbiome features associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection susceptibility and illness severity. METHODS We collected clinical data and nasopharyngeal swabs from 285 children, adolescents, and young adults (<21 years) with documented SARS-CoV-2 exposure. We used 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing to characterize the nasopharyngeal microbiome and evaluated for age-adjusted associations between microbiome characteristics and SARS-CoV-2 infection status and respiratory symptoms. RESULTS Nasopharyngeal microbiome composition varied with age (PERMANOVA, P < .001; R2 = 0.06) and between SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals with and without respiratory symptoms (PERMANOVA, P = .002; R2 = 0.009). SARS-CoV-2-infected participants with Corynebacterium/Dolosigranulum-dominant microbiome profiles were less likely to have respiratory symptoms than infected participants with other nasopharyngeal microbiome profiles (OR: .38; 95% CI: .18-.81). Using generalized joint attributed modeling, we identified 9 bacterial taxa associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and 6 taxa differentially abundant among SARS-CoV-2-infected participants with respiratory symptoms; the magnitude of these associations was strongly influenced by age. CONCLUSIONS We identified interactive relationships between age and specific nasopharyngeal microbiome features that are associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection susceptibility and symptoms in children, adolescents, and young adults. Our data suggest that the upper respiratory microbiome may be a mechanism by which age influences SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility and illness severity.
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Children’s Clinical Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA,Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA,Duke Microbiome Center, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USAand
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- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA,Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Correspondence: M. S. Kelly, 2301 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710 USA ()
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Warren BG, Turner NA, Addison R, Nelson A, Barrett A, Addison B, Graves A, Smith B, Lewis SS, Weber DJ, Sickbert-Bennett EE, Anderson DJ. The impact of infection vs. colonization on Clostridioides difficile environmental contamination in hospitalized patients with diarrhea. Open Forum Infect Dis 2022; 9:ofac069. [PMID: 35265730 PMCID: PMC8900930 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Background Patients with Clostridioides difficile infections (CDIs) contaminate the healthcare environment; however, the relative contribution of contamination by colonized individuals is unknown. Current guidelines do not recommend the use of contact precautions for asymptomatic C difficile carriers. We evaluated C difficile environmental contamination in rooms housing adult inpatients with diarrhea based on C difficile status. Methods We performed a prospective cohort study of inpatient adults with diarrhea who underwent testing for CDI via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and enzyme immunoassay (EIA). Patients were stratified into cohorts based on test result: infected (PCR+/EIA+), colonized (PCR+/EIA−), or negative/control (PCR−). Environmental microbiological samples were taken within 24 hours of C difficile testing and again for 2 successive days. Samples were obtained from the patient, bathroom, and care areas. Results We enrolled 94 patients between November 2019 and June 2021. Clostridioides difficile was recovered in 93 (38%) patient rooms: 44 (62%) infected patient rooms, 35 (43%) colonized patient rooms (P = .08 vs infected 38 patient rooms), and 14 (15%) negative patient rooms (P < .01 vs infected; P < .01 vs colonized). Clostridioides difficile was recovered in 40 (56%), 6 (9%), and 20 (28%) of bathrooms, care areas and patient areas in 40 infected patient rooms; 34 (41%), 1 (1%), and 4 (5%) samples in colonized patient rooms; and 12 (13%), 1 (1%), and 3 (3%) of samples in negative patient rooms, respectively. Conclusions Patients colonized with C difficile frequently contaminated the hospital environment. Our data support the use of contact precautions when entering rooms of patients colonized with C difficile, especially when entering the bathroom.
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- Bobby G Warren
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC, USA
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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Nys CL, Fischer K, Funaro J, Shoff CJ, Theophanous RG, Staton CA, Mando-Vandrick J, Toler R, Shroba J, Turner NA, Liu B, Lee HJ, Moehring RW, Wrenn RH. Impact of Education and Data Feedback on Antibiotic Prescribing for Urinary Tract Infections in the Emergency Department: An Interrupted Time Series Analysis. Clin Infect Dis 2022; 75:1194-1200. [PMID: 35100621 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciac073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are often misdiagnosed or treated with exceedingly broad-spectrum antibiotics, leading to negative downstream effects. We aimed to implement antimicrobial stewardship (AS) strategies targeting UTI prescribing in the emergency department (ED). METHODS We conducted a quasi-experimental prospective AS intervention outlining appropriate UTI diagnosis and management across three EDs, within an academic and two community hospitals, in North Carolina, United States. The study was divided into three phases, a baseline period and two intervention phases. Phase 1 included introduction of an ED-specific urine antibiogram and UTI guideline, education, and department-specific feedback on UTI diagnosis and antibiotic prescribing. Phase 2 included re-education and provider-specific feedback. Eligible patients included adults with an antibiotic prescription for UTI diagnosed in the ED from 11/13/18 to 3/1/21. Admitted patients were excluded. The primary outcome was guideline-concordant antibiotic use, assessed using an interrupted time series regression analysis with 2-week intervals. RESULTS Overall, 8,742 distinct patients with 10,426 patient encounters were included. Ninety-two percent of all encounters (n=9,583) were diagnosed with cystitis and 8.1% with pyelonephritis (n=843). There was an initial 15% increase in guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing in Phase 1 compared to the pre-intervention period (incidence rate ratio [IRR] 1.15; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.03 to 1.29). A significant increase of guideline-concordant prescriptions was seen with every two-week interval during Phase 2 (IRR 1.03; 95% CI 1.01 to 1.04). CONCLUSIONS This multifaceted AS intervention involving a guideline, education, and provider-specific feedback increased guideline-concordant antibiotic choices for treat-and-release patients in the ED.
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- Cara L Nys
- Department of Pharmacy, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Duke Regional Hospital, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Pharmacy, Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC, USA.,Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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Turner NA, Charalambous LT, Case A, Byers IS, Seidelman J. 242. Rising Incidence of Finegoldia magna among Prosthetic Joint Infections. Open Forum Infect Dis 2021. [PMCID: PMC8644752 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofab466.444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Background Finegoldia magna is an anaerobic, Gram-positive coccus infrequently associated with osteoarticular infections. Since the adoption of matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF), F. magna has been increasingly reported as a cause of osteoarticular infections. Our objective was to determine the incidence of F. magna prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) within our institution. Methods We conducted a retrospective longitudinal survey from 1 January 2016 - 31 December 2020 at an academic tertiary care referral center. We constructed two Poisson count models to assess the incidence of Finegoldia magna PJIs: one consisting of a clinical microbiology database of synovial fluid and surgical tissue cultures and one using a PJI registry. Time served as the covariate of interest. We used number of cultures as an offset term in the clinical microbiology model, and number of PJI cases as the offset term in the prosthetic joint registry model –reflecting the relevant denominator for each dataset. The microbiology database was limited to synovial fluid aspirates and surgical tissue cultures to minimize risk of confounding by contaminants. Results The PJI registry included 44 F. magna infections occurring among 4,706 (0.9%) PJIs. The microbiology survey included 99 F. magna isolates from 43,940 (0.2%) cultures sent from joint aspirates or surgical tissue cultures. Among overall synovial and surgical tissue cultures, we found no significant increase in F. magna over time (incidence rate ratio [IRR] 1.0, 95% CI: 0.9-1.2, Figure 1A). Within the PJI registry, however, we observed a 40% per-year increase in F. magna incidence (IRR 1.4, 95% CI: 1.1-1.8, Figure 1B). Figure 1 ![]()
Incidence of Finegoldia magna Over Time Conclusion Adoption of MALDI-TOF has expanded the clinical microbiology laboratory’s capacity for rapid speciation, sometimes revealing previously unseen epidemiologic trends. While we saw no significant change in overall incidence of F. magna among synovial and surgical tissue cultures, we did detect a significant increase specifically among PJI cases. F. magna warrants attention as an emerging pathogen among PJI. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures
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Turner NA, Xu A, Zaharoff S, Holland TL, Holland TL, Lodise T, Lodise T. 1094. Determination of Plasma Protein Binding of Dalbavancin. Open Forum Infect Dis 2021. [DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofab466.1288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
Abstract
Background
Dalbavancin is a semi-synthetic glycopeptide with a long half-life, making it a promising alternative for infections requiring prolonged therapy such as complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. A critical pharmacokinetic consideration with prolonged treatment is the unbound or “free” concentration-time profile, as free antibiotic concentrations may correlate with tissue penetration and therapeutic effects better than total drug. Dalbavancin’s plasma protein binding (PB) remains poorly studied and has been reported to range between 93-99%. A reliable and validated free drug assay is needed to link dalbavancin concentrations with patient outcomes.
Methods
The ultracentrifugation technique was used to determine free dalbavancin concentrations in plasma at two concentrations (50 and 200 µg/mL) in duplicate. Centrifuge tubes and pipette tips were treated for 24 hours before use with Tween 80 to assess adsorption. PB centrifugation conditions: 400,000 g (106,000 RPM in TLA-120.1 rotor) for 4 hours at 37°C. Dalbavancin concentrations were analyzed from the plasma samples (total) and middle layer samples (free) by liquid chromatography – tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) with isotopically labeled internal standard. Warfarin served as a positive control with known high protein binding.
Results
Measurement of free dalbavancin was sensitive to adsorption onto plastic. Treatment of tubes and pipette tips with ≥2% Tween 80 effectively prevented drug loss during PB experiments (Figure 1). Addition of 2% Tween 80 did not affect PB results of warfarin. In PB experiments with 2% Tween 80 coated tubes, the free fraction of dalbavancin was 0.96% (95% CI: 0.94-0.98) at 50 µg/mL and 1.11% (95% CI: 1.08-1.13) at 200 µg/mL.
Figure 1. Percent Free Dalbavancin vs Varying Concentrations of Tween 80 for Pretreatment of Tubes
Conclusion
By the ultracentrifugation method, dalbavancin’s PB was estimated to be approximately 99%. Given dalbavancin’s high PB, accurate measurement of free dalbavancin concentrations should be a key consideration in future exposure-response studies, especially clinical trials. Future investigations should also determine if the active fraction is best predicted by the free or total fraction, as this remains a subject of debate.
Supported by NIAID/NIH grant UM1AI104681. Content is solely the authors’ responsibility and does not represent official NIH views.
Disclosures
Thomas L. Holland, MD, Aridis (Consultant)Basilea Pharmaceutica (Consultant)Lysovant (Consultant) Thomas L. Holland, MD, Aridis (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; Basilea Pharmaceutica (Individual(s) Involved: Self): blinded adjudication, Consultant, Other Financial or Material Support; Genentech (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; Lysovant (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; Motif Bio (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant Thomas Lodise, Jr., PharmD, PhD, Astra-Zeneca (Consultant)Bayer (Consultant)DoseMe (Consultant, Advisor or Review Panel member)ferring (Consultant)genentech (Consultant)GSK (Consultant)Melinta (Consultant)merck (Consultant, Independent Contractor)nabriva (Consultant)paratek (Consultant, Advisor or Review Panel member, Speaker’s Bureau)shionogi (Consultant, Advisor or Review Panel member, Speaker’s Bureau)Spero (Consultant)tetraphase (Consultant)Venatrox (Consultant) Thomas Lodise, Jr., PharmD, PhD, Melinta Therapeutics (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; Merck (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant, Scientific Research Study Investigator; Paratek (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; Shionogi (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant, Speakers’ bureau; Spero (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant; Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Individual(s) Involved: Self): Consultant
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- Keystone Bioanalytical, North Wales, Pennsylvania
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- Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, NY
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- Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, NY
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Hurst JH, Heston SM, Chambers HN, Cunningham HM, Price MJ, Suarez L, Crew CG, Bose S, Aquino JN, Carr ST, Griffin SM, Smith SH, Jenkins K, Pfeiffer TS, Rodriguez J, DeMarco CT, De Naeyer NA, Gurley TC, Louzao R, Zhao C, Cunningham CK, Steinbach WJ, Denny TN, Lugo DJ, Moody MA, Permar SR, Rotta AT, Turner NA, Walter EB, Woods CW, Kelly MS. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Infections Among Children in the Biospecimens from Respiratory Virus-Exposed Kids (BRAVE Kids) Study. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 73:e2875-e2882. [PMID: 33141180 PMCID: PMC7665428 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 10/30/2020] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Child with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection typically have mild symptoms that do not require medical attention, leaving a gap in our understanding of the spectrum of SARS-CoV-2-related illnesses that the viruses causes in children. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study of children and adolescents (aged <21 years) with a SARS-CoV-2-infected close contact. We collected nasopharyngeal or nasal swabs at enrollment and tested for SARS-CoV-2 using a real-time polymerase chain reaction assay. RESULTS Of 382 children, 293 (77%) were SARS-CoV-2-infected. SARS-CoV-2-infected children were more likely to be Hispanic (P < .0001), less likely to have asthma (P = .005), and more likely to have an infected sibling contact (P = .001) than uninfected children. Children aged 6-13 years were frequently asymptomatic (39%) and had respiratory symptoms less often than younger children (29% vs 48%; P = .01) or adolescents (29% vs 60%; P < .001). Compared with children aged 6-13 years, adolescents more frequently reported influenza-like (61% vs 39%; P < .001) , and gastrointestinal (27% vs 9%; P = .002), and sensory symptoms (42% vs 9%; P < .0001) and had more prolonged illnesses (median [interquartile range] duration: 7 [4-12] vs 4 [3-8] days; P = 0.01). Despite the age-related variability in symptoms, wWe found no difference in nasopharyngeal viral load by age or between symptomatic and asymptomatic children. CONCLUSIONS Hispanic ethnicity and an infected sibling close contact are associated with increased SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among children, while asthma is associated with decreased risk. Age-related differences in clinical manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection must be considered when evaluating children for coronavirus disease 2019 and in developing screening strategies for schools and childcare settings.
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- Jillian H Hurst
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Children’s Health and Discovery Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Children’s Health and Discovery Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Children’s Clinical Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Children’s Clinical Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Children’s Health and Discovery Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Primary Care Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Seidelman JL, Turner NA, Wrenn RH, Sarubbi C, Anderson DJ, Sexton DJ, Moehring RW. Impact of Antibiotic Stewardship Rounds in the Intensive Care Setting: a prospective cluster-randomized crossover study. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 74:1986-1992. [PMID: 34460904 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciab747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Few groups have formally studied the effect of dedicated antibiotic stewardship rounds (ASRs) on antibiotic use (AU) in intensive care units (ICUs). METHODS We implemented weekly ASRs using a two-arm, cluster-randomized, crossover study in 5 ICUs at Duke University Hospital from 11/2017 to 6/2018. We excluded patients without an active antibiotic order, or if they had a marker of high complexity including an existing infectious disease consult, transplant, ventricular assist device, or ECMO. AU during and following ICU stay for patients with ASRs was compared to the controls. We recorded the number of reviews, recommendations delivered, and responses. We evaluated change in ICU-specific AU during and after the study. RESULTS Our analysis included 4,683 patients: 2330 intervention and 2353 controls. Teams performed 761 reviews during ASRs, which excluded 1569 patients: 60% of patients off antibiotics, and 8% complex patients. Exclusions affected 88% the cardiac surgery ICU (CTICU) patients. AU rate ratio (RR) was 0.97 (0.91-1.04). When CTICU was removed, the RR was 0.93 (0.89-0.98). AU in the post-study period decreased by 16% (95% CI 11-24%) compared to the AU in the baseline period. Change in AU was differential among units: largest in the neurology ICU (-28%) and smallest in the CTICU (-2%). CONCLUSION Weekly multi-disciplinary ASRs was a high-resource intervention associated with a small AU reduction. The noticeable ICU AU decline over time is possibly due to indirect effects of ASRs. Effects differed among specialty ICUs, emphasizing the importance of customizing ASRs to match unit-specific population, workflow, and culture.
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- Jessica L Seidelman
- Duke University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Garrido C, Hurst JH, Lorang CG, Aquino JN, Rodriguez J, Pfeiffer TS, Singh T, Semmes EC, Lugo DJ, Rotta AT, Turner NA, Burke TW, McClain MT, Petzold EA, Permar SR, Moody MA, Woods CW, Kelly MS, Fouda GG. Asymptomatic or mild symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection elicits durable neutralizing antibody responses in children and adolescents. JCI Insight 2021; 6:e150909. [PMID: 34228642 PMCID: PMC8492306 DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.150909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2021] [Accepted: 06/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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As SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread globally, questions have emerged regarding the strength and durability of immune responses in specific populations. In this study, we evaluated humoral immune responses in 69 children and adolescents with asymptomatic or mild symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. We detected robust IgM, IgG, and IgA antibody responses to a broad array of SARS-CoV-2 antigens at the time of acute infection and 2 and 4 months after acute infection in all participants. Notably, these antibody responses were associated with virus-neutralizing activity that was still detectable 4 months after acute infection in 94% of children. Moreover, antibody responses and neutralizing activity in sera from children and adolescents were comparable or superior to those observed in sera from 24 adults with mild symptomatic infection. Taken together, these findings indicate that children and adolescents with mild or asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection generate robust and durable humoral immune responses that can likely contribute to protection from reinfection.
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- Carolina Garrido
- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke Univeristy School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Children's Clinical Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine, Duke University, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Children's Clinical Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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- Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, United States of America
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Turner NA, Sweeney MI, Xet-Mull AM, Storm J, Mithani SK, Jones DB, Miles JJ, Tobin DM, Stout JE. A Cluster of Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Tenosynovitis Following Hurricane Relief Efforts. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 72:e931-e937. [PMID: 33136139 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are a rare cause of infectious tenosynovitis of the upper extremity. Using molecular methods, clinical microbiology laboratories are increasingly reporting identification down to the species level. Improved methods for speciation are revealing new insights into the clinical and epidemiologic features of rare NTM infections. METHODS We encountered 3 cases of epidemiologically linked upper extremity NTM tenosynovitis associated with exposure to hurricane-damaged wood. We conducted whole-genome sequencing to assess isolate relatedness followed by a literature review of NTM infections that involved the upper extremity. RESULTS Despite shared epidemiologic risk, the cases were caused by 3 distinct organisms. Two cases were rare infections caused by closely related but distinct species within the Mycobacterium terrae complex that could not be differentiated by traditional methods. The third case was caused by Mycobacterium intracellulare. An updated literature review that focused on research that used modern molecular speciation methods found that several species within the M. terrae complex are increasingly reported as a cause of upper extremity tenosynovitis, often in association with environmental exposures. CONCLUSIONS These cases illustrate the importance of molecular methods for speciating phenotypically similar NTM, as well as the limitations of laboratory-based surveillance in detecting point-source outbreaks when the source is environmental and may involve multiple organisms.
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- Nicholas A Turner
- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Orthopedic Institute, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA
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- Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Turner NA, Warren BG, Gergen-Teague MF, Addison RM, Addison B, Rutala WA, Weber DJ, Sexton DJ, Anderson DJ. Impact of Oral Metronidazole, Vancomycin, and Fidaxomicin on Host Shedding and Environmental Contamination with Clostridioides difficile. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 74:648-656. [PMID: 34017999 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciab473] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES Shedding of Clostridioides difficile spores from infected individuals contaminates the hospital environment and contributes to infection transmission. We assessed whether antibiotic selection impacts C. difficile shedding and contamination of the hospital environment. METHODS In this prospective, unblinded, randomized controlled trial of hospitalized adults with C. difficile infection, subjects were randomized 1:1:1 to receive fidaxomicin, oral vancomycin, or metronidazole. The primary outcome was change in environmental contamination rate while on treatment. Secondary outcomes included stool shedding, total burden of contamination, and molecular relatedness of stool versus environmental C. difficile isolates. RESULTS 33 patients were enrolled and 31 (94%) completed the study. Fidaxomicin (-0.36 log10 CFU/day, 95% CI -0.52 to -0.19, p<0.01) and vancomycin (-0.17 log10 CFU/day, 95% CI -0.34 to -0.01, p=0.05) were associated with more rapid decline in C. difficile shedding compared to metronidazole (-0.01 log10 CFU/day, 95% CI -0.10 to +0.08). Both vancomycin (6.3%, 95% CI 4.7-8.3%) and fidaxomicin (13.1%, 95% CI 10.7-15.9%) were associated with lower rates of environmental contamination than metronidazole (21.4%, 95% CI 18.0-25.2%). When specifically modeling within-subject change over time, fidaxomicin (aOR 0.83, 95% CI 0.70-0.99, p=0.04) was associated with more rapid decline in environmental contamination than vancomycin or metronidazole. Overall, 207 of 233 (88.8%) of environmental C. difficile isolates matched subject stool isolates by ribotyping, without significant difference by treatment. CONCLUSIONS Fidaxomicin, and to a lesser extent vancomycin, reduces C. difficile shedding and contamination of the hospital environment relative to metronidazole. Treatment choice may play a role in reducing healthcare-associated C. difficile transmission.
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- Nicholas A Turner
- Duke University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Duke University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Durham, North Carolina, USA.,Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Mourad A, Turner NA, Baker AW, Okeke NL, Narayanasamy S, Rolfe R, Engemann JJ, Cox GM, Stout JE. Social Disadvantage, Politics, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 Trends: A County-level Analysis of United States Data. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 72:e604-e607. [PMID: 32918071 PMCID: PMC7543351 DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 09/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Background Understanding the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 is essential for public health control efforts. Social, demographic, and political characteristics at the US county level might be associated with changes in SARS-CoV-2 case incidence. Methods We conducted a retrospective analysis of the relationship between the change in reported SARS-CoV-2 case counts at the US county level during June 1, 2020 – June 30,2020 and social, demographic, and political characteristics of the county. Results 1023/3142 US counties were included in the analysis. 678 (66·3%) had increasing, and 345 (33·7%) had non-increasing SARS-CoV-2 case counts between June 1 – June 30, 2020. In bivariate analysis, counties with increasing case counts had significantly higher Social Deprivation Index (median 48, IQR 24 – 72) than counties with non-increasing case counts (median 40, IQR 19 – 66; p=0·009). Counties with increasing case counts were significantly more likely to be metropolitan areas of 250,000 – 1 million population (p&0·001), to have a higher percentage of Black residents (9% vs. 6%, p=0·013), and to have voted for the Republican presidential candidate in 2016 by a 10-point or greater margin (p=0·044). In the multivariable model, metropolitan areas of 250,000 – 1 million population, higher percentage of Black residents and a 10-point or greater Republican victory were independently associated with increasing case counts. Conclusions Increasing case counts of SARS-CoV-2 in the US during June 2020 were associated with a combination of sociodemographic and political factors. Addressing social disadvantage and differential belief systems that may correspond with political alignment will play a critical role in pandemic control.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ahmad Mourad
- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Raleigh Infectious Diseases Associates, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
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Axfors C, Schmitt AM, Janiaud P, van’t Hooft J, Abd-Elsalam S, Abdo EF, Abella BS, Akram J, Amaravadi RK, Angus DC, Arabi YM, Azhar S, Baden LR, Baker AW, Belkhir L, Benfield T, Berrevoets MAH, Chen CP, Chen TC, Cheng SH, Cheng CY, Chung WS, Cohen YZ, Cowan LN, Dalgard O, de Almeida e Val FF, de Lacerda MVG, de Melo GC, Derde L, Dubee V, Elfakir A, Gordon AC, Hernandez-Cardenas CM, Hills T, Hoepelman AIM, Huang YW, Igau B, Jin R, Jurado-Camacho F, Khan KS, Kremsner PG, Kreuels B, Kuo CY, Le T, Lin YC, Lin WP, Lin TH, Lyngbakken MN, McArthur C, McVerry BJ, Meza-Meneses P, Monteiro WM, Morpeth SC, Mourad A, Mulligan MJ, Murthy S, Naggie S, Narayanasamy S, Nichol A, Novack LA, O’Brien SM, Okeke NL, Perez L, Perez-Padilla R, Perrin L, Remigio-Luna A, Rivera-Martinez NE, Rockhold FW, Rodriguez-Llamazares S, Rolfe R, Rosa R, Røsjø H, Sampaio VS, Seto TB, Shahzad M, Soliman S, Stout JE, Thirion-Romero I, Troxel AB, Tseng TY, Turner NA, Ulrich RJ, Walsh SR, Webb SA, Weehuizen JM, Velinova M, Wong HL, Wrenn R, Zampieri FG, Zhong W, Moher D, Goodman SN, Ioannidis JPA, Hemkens LG. Author Correction: Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials. Nat Commun 2021; 12:3001. [PMID: 33990619 PMCID: PMC8121133 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23559-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Cathrine Axfors
- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.8993.b0000 0004 1936 9457Department for Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- grid.6612.30000 0004 1937 0642Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland ,grid.6612.30000 0004 1937 0642Department of Medical Oncology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- grid.6612.30000 0004 1937 0642Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.7177.60000000084992262Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- grid.412258.80000 0000 9477 7793Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
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- grid.252487.e0000 0000 8632 679XTropical Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
| | - Benjamin S. Abella
- grid.25879.310000 0004 1936 8972Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- grid.412956.dDepartment of Internal Medicine, Vice Chancellor, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Punjab Pakistan
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- grid.25879.310000 0004 1936 8972Abramson Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA
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- grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Clinical Research Investigation and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA ,grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000the UPMC Health System Office of Healthcare Innovation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- grid.412149.b0000 0004 0608 0662Intensive Care Department, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- grid.412956.dDepartment of Public Health, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Punjab Pakistan
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- grid.62560.370000 0004 0378 8294Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA
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- grid.7942.80000 0001 2294 713XInfectious Diseases Department, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- grid.4973.90000 0004 0646 7373Center of Research & Disruption of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- grid.416373.4Department of Internal Medicine, Elisabeth-Tweesteden hospital, Tilburg, Netherlands
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- grid.454740.6Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- grid.454740.6Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan
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- grid.454740.6Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- grid.454740.6Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- grid.454740.6Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan
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- grid.417555.70000 0000 8814 392XSanofi, Bridgewater, NJ USA
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- grid.411279.80000 0000 9637 455XDepartment of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway ,grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- grid.418153.a0000 0004 0486 0972Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM Brazil ,Instituto Leonidas e Maria Deane – ILMD, FIOCRUZ-AM, Manaus, AM Brazil
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- grid.418153.a0000 0004 0486 0972Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM Brazil ,grid.412290.c0000 0000 8024 0602Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, AM Brazil
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- grid.7692.a0000000090126352Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands ,grid.7692.a0000000090126352Intensive Care Centre, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- grid.411147.60000 0004 0472 0283Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France
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- grid.417895.60000 0001 0693 2181Department of Surgery and Cancer, Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine, and Intensive Care Medicine, Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- grid.419179.30000 0000 8515 3604Critical Care Department, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- grid.415117.70000 0004 0445 6830Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand ,grid.414055.10000 0000 9027 2851Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
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- grid.7692.a0000000090126352Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- grid.454740.6Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Hua Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Changhua, Taiwan
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- grid.417555.70000 0000 8814 392XSanofi, Bridgewater, NJ USA
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- grid.24696.3f0000 0004 0369 153XBeijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- grid.419179.30000 0000 8515 3604Critical Care Department, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- grid.4489.10000000121678994Department of Preventive Medicine & Public Health, University of Granada, Hospital Real, Avenida del Hospicio, Granada, Granada, Spain
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- grid.10392.390000 0001 2190 1447Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany ,grid.452268.fCentre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon ,grid.452463.2German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- grid.13648.380000 0001 2180 3484Department of Medicine, Division of Tropical Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany ,grid.424065.10000 0001 0701 3136Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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- grid.454740.6Department of Internal Medicine, Pingtung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Pingtung, Taiwan
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- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA
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- grid.454740.6Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- grid.454740.6Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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- grid.454740.6Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Hua Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Changhua, Taiwan
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- grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway ,grid.411279.80000 0000 9637 455XDivision of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
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- grid.415117.70000 0004 0445 6830Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand ,grid.414055.10000 0000 9027 2851Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand ,grid.1002.30000 0004 1936 7857School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC Australia
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- grid.21925.3d0000 0004 1936 9000Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA USA
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- grid.418153.a0000 0004 0486 0972Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM Brazil ,grid.412290.c0000 0000 8024 0602Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, AM Brazil
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- grid.415534.20000 0004 0372 0644Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
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- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 USA
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- grid.137628.90000 0004 1936 8753Department of Microbiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY USA ,grid.137628.90000 0004 1936 8753Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY USA
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- grid.17091.3e0000 0001 2288 9830University of British Columbia School of Medicine, Vancouver, BC Canada
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- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA
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- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA
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- grid.1002.30000 0004 1936 7857School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC Australia ,grid.267362.40000 0004 0432 5259Department of Intensive Care, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC Australia ,grid.412751.40000 0001 0315 8143Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland ,grid.7886.10000 0001 0768 2743School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- grid.38142.3c000000041936754XDivision of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA
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- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC USA
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- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA
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- grid.419179.30000 0000 8515 3604Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- grid.419179.30000 0000 8515 3604Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC USA
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- grid.419179.30000 0000 8515 3604Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA
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- grid.430652.60000 0004 0396 2096UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, IA USA
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- grid.5510.10000 0004 1936 8921Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway ,grid.411279.80000 0000 9637 455XDivision of Research and Innovation, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
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- grid.418153.a0000 0004 0486 0972Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM Brazil ,Fundação de Vigilância em Saúde do Amazonas, Manaus, AM Brazil
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- grid.410445.00000 0001 2188 0957University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI USA ,grid.415594.8The Queen’s Medical Center, Honolulu, HI USA
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- grid.412956.dDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Punjab Pakistan
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- grid.411775.10000 0004 0621 4712Public Health and Community Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
| | - Jason E. Stout
- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA
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- grid.419179.30000 0000 8515 3604Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- grid.137628.90000 0004 1936 8753Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY USA
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- grid.454740.6Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan
| | - Nicholas A. Turner
- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA
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- grid.137628.90000 0004 1936 8753Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY USA
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- grid.62560.370000 0004 0378 8294Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
| | - Steve A. Webb
- grid.1002.30000 0004 1936 7857School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC Australia ,grid.460013.0St. John of God Hospital, Subiaco, WA Australia
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- grid.7692.a0000000090126352Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
| | | | - Hon-Lai Wong
- grid.454740.6Department of Internal Medicine, Keelung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Keelung, Taiwan
| | - Rebekah Wrenn
- grid.189509.c0000000100241216Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC USA
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- grid.477370.00000 0004 0454 243XResearch Institute, HCor-Hospital do Coração, São Paulo, Brazil ,Research Institute, BRICNet - Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network, São Paulo, Brazil ,IDor Research Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
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- grid.410740.60000 0004 1803 4911National Engineering Research Center for the Emergency Drug, Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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- grid.412687.e0000 0000 9606 5108Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON Canada
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA
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- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.168010.e0000000419368956Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.484013.aMeta-Research Innovation Center Berlin (METRIC-B), Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
| | - Lars G. Hemkens
- grid.168010.e0000000419368956Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA ,grid.6612.30000 0004 1937 0642Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland ,grid.484013.aMeta-Research Innovation Center Berlin (METRIC-B), Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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Turner NA, Wrenn R, Sarubbi C, Kleris R, Lugar PL, Radojicic C, Moehring RW, Anderson DJ. Evaluation of a Pharmacist-Led Penicillin Allergy Assessment Program and Allergy Delabeling in a Tertiary Care Hospital. JAMA Netw Open 2021; 4:e219820. [PMID: 33983399 PMCID: PMC8120333 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.9820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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IMPORTANCE Penicillin allergies are frequently mislabeled, which may contribute to use of less-preferred alternative antibiotics. OBJECTIVE To evaluate a pharmacist-led allergy assessment program's association with antimicrobial use and clinical outcomes. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A pharmacist-led allergy assessment program was launched in 2 phases (June 1, 2015, and November 2, 2016) at a single-center tertiary referral hospital. The longitudinal cross-sectional study included all study period adult admissions; hospitalwide outcomes were assessed by segmented regression. Individual outcomes were assessed within an embedded propensity score-matched case-control study of inpatients undergoing comprehensive allergy assessment following self-report of penicillin allergy. Analysis occurred from March 1, 2020, to February 29, 2020. EXPOSURES The longitudinal study analyzed hospital-level outcomes over 3 periods: preintervention (15 months), phase 1 (structured allergy history alone, 16 months), and phase 2 (comprehensive assessment including penicillin skin testing, 52 months). The case-control study defined cases as individuals undergoing comprehensive allergy assessment. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Hospital-level outcomes included antibiotic days of therapy per 1000 patient-days and hospital-acquired Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) incidence per 10 000 patient-days. Individual outcomes included antibiotic selection, overall survival, and CDI-free survival. RESULTS Longitudinal analysis spanned 2014-2020 (median admissions, 46 416 per year; interquartile range [IQR], 46 001-50 091 per year). Hospitalwide, allergy histories were temporally associated with decreased use of nonpenicillin alternative antibiotics (rate ratio, 0.87; 95% CI, 0.79-0.97) and high-CDI-risk antibiotics (rate ratio, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.85-0.98). Penicillin skin testing was temporally associated with lower hospital-acquired CDI rates (rate ratio, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.43-0.86). The embedded case-control study included 272 cases and 819 controls. Median age was 63 years (interquartile range, 51-73 years), 553 (50.7%) patients were women, and 229 (21.0%) patients were Black. Allergy-assessed patients were less likely to receive high-CDI-risk antibiotics at discharge (odds ratio, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.44-0.98). Estimated reductions in mortality (hazard ratio, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.55-1.07) and hospital-acquired CDI risk (hazard ratio, 0.53; 95% CI, 0.18-1.55) were not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Pharmacist-led allergy assessments may be associated with reduced high-CDI-risk antibiotic use at both hospitalwide and individual levels. Although individual reductions in mortality and CDI risk did not achieve significance, divergence of survival curves suggest longer-term benefits of allergy delabeling warrant future study.
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Affiliation(s)
- Nicholas A. Turner
- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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Garrido C, Hurst JH, Lorang CG, Aquino JN, Rodriguez J, Pfeiffer TS, Singh T, Semmes EC, Lugo DJ, Rotta AT, Turner NA, Burke TW, McClain MT, Petzold EA, Permar SR, Moody MA, Woods CW, Kelly MS, Fouda GG. Asymptomatic or mild symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection elicits durable neutralizing antibody responses in children and adolescents. medRxiv 2021. [PMID: 33907760 DOI: 10.1101/2021.04.17.21255663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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As SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread globally, questions have emerged regarding the strength and durability of immune responses in specific populations. In this study, we evaluated humoral immune responses in 69 children and adolescents with asymptomatic or mild symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. We detected robust IgM, IgG, and IgA antibody responses to a broad array of SARS-CoV-2 antigens at the time of acute infection and 2 and 4 months after acute infection in all participants. Notably, these antibody responses were associated with virus neutralizing activity that was still detectable 4 months after acute infection in 94% of children. Moreover, antibody responses and neutralizing activity in sera from children and adolescents were comparable or superior to those observed in sera from 24 adults with mild symptomatic infection. Taken together, these findings indicate children and adolescents with mild or asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection generate robust and durable humoral immune responses that are likely to protect from reinfection.
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Axfors C, Schmitt AM, Janiaud P, Van't Hooft J, Abd-Elsalam S, Abdo EF, Abella BS, Akram J, Amaravadi RK, Angus DC, Arabi YM, Azhar S, Baden LR, Baker AW, Belkhir L, Benfield T, Berrevoets MAH, Chen CP, Chen TC, Cheng SH, Cheng CY, Chung WS, Cohen YZ, Cowan LN, Dalgard O, de Almeida E Val FF, de Lacerda MVG, de Melo GC, Derde L, Dubee V, Elfakir A, Gordon AC, Hernandez-Cardenas CM, Hills T, Hoepelman AIM, Huang YW, Igau B, Jin R, Jurado-Camacho F, Khan KS, Kremsner PG, Kreuels B, Kuo CY, Le T, Lin YC, Lin WP, Lin TH, Lyngbakken MN, McArthur C, McVerry BJ, Meza-Meneses P, Monteiro WM, Morpeth SC, Mourad A, Mulligan MJ, Murthy S, Naggie S, Narayanasamy S, Nichol A, Novack LA, O'Brien SM, Okeke NL, Perez L, Perez-Padilla R, Perrin L, Remigio-Luna A, Rivera-Martinez NE, Rockhold FW, Rodriguez-Llamazares S, Rolfe R, Rosa R, Røsjø H, Sampaio VS, Seto TB, Shahzad M, Soliman S, Stout JE, Thirion-Romero I, Troxel AB, Tseng TY, Turner NA, Ulrich RJ, Walsh SR, Webb SA, Weehuizen JM, Velinova M, Wong HL, Wrenn R, Zampieri FG, Zhong W, Moher D, Goodman SN, Ioannidis JPA, Hemkens LG. Mortality outcomes with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine in COVID-19 from an international collaborative meta-analysis of randomized trials. Nat Commun 2021; 12:2349. [PMID: 33859192 PMCID: PMC8050319 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22446-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 50.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2020] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Substantial COVID-19 research investment has been allocated to randomized clinical trials (RCTs) on hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine, which currently face recruitment challenges or early discontinuation. We aim to estimate the effects of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine on survival in COVID-19 from all currently available RCT evidence, published and unpublished. We present a rapid meta-analysis of ongoing, completed, or discontinued RCTs on hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine treatment for any COVID-19 patients (protocol: https://osf.io/QESV4/ ). We systematically identified unpublished RCTs (ClinicalTrials.gov, WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform, Cochrane COVID-registry up to June 11, 2020), and published RCTs (PubMed, medRxiv and bioRxiv up to October 16, 2020). All-cause mortality has been extracted (publications/preprints) or requested from investigators and combined in random-effects meta-analyses, calculating odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs), separately for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. Prespecified subgroup analyses include patient setting, diagnostic confirmation, control type, and publication status. Sixty-three trials were potentially eligible. We included 14 unpublished trials (1308 patients) and 14 publications/preprints (9011 patients). Results for hydroxychloroquine are dominated by RECOVERY and WHO SOLIDARITY, two highly pragmatic trials, which employed relatively high doses and included 4716 and 1853 patients, respectively (67% of the total sample size). The combined OR on all-cause mortality for hydroxychloroquine is 1.11 (95% CI: 1.02, 1.20; I² = 0%; 26 trials; 10,012 patients) and for chloroquine 1.77 (95%CI: 0.15, 21.13, I² = 0%; 4 trials; 307 patients). We identified no subgroup effects. We found that treatment with hydroxychloroquine is associated with increased mortality in COVID-19 patients, and there is no benefit of chloroquine. Findings have unclear generalizability to outpatients, children, pregnant women, and people with comorbidities.
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- Cathrine Axfors
- Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department for Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Department of Medical Oncology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
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- Tropical Medicine and Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Vice Chancellor, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Abramson Cancer Center and Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Critical Care Medicine, The Clinical Research Investigation and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
- the UPMC Health System Office of Healthcare Innovation, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Intensive Care Department, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Public Health, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Infectious Diseases Department, Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
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- Center of Research & Disruption of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Amager and Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Elisabeth-Tweesteden hospital, Tilburg, Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Instituto Leonidas e Maria Deane - ILMD, FIOCRUZ-AM, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Intensive Care Centre, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department, Angers University Hospital, Angers, France
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- Department of Surgery and Cancer, Anaesthetics, Pain Medicine, and Intensive Care Medicine, Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Critical Care Department, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
- Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Hua Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Changhua, Taiwan
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- Beijing Youan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Critical Care Department, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Department of Preventive Medicine & Public Health, University of Granada, Hospital Real, Avenida del Hospicio, Granada, Granada, Spain
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- Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Centre de Recherches Médicales de Lambaréné, Lambaréné, Gabon
- German Center for Infection Research, Partner Site Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Tropical Medicine and Division of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
- Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Pingtung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Pingtung, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Taoyuan General Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taoyuan, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, New Taipei City, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Hua Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Changhua, Taiwan
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Division of Medicine, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
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- Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
- Auckland City Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
- School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Universidade do Estado do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 27710, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- University of British Columbia School of Medicine, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Department of Intensive Care, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Division of Research and Innovation, Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway
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- Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Manaus, AM, Brazil
- Fundação de Vigilância em Saúde do Amazonas, Manaus, AM, Brazil
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- University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI, USA
- The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Health Sciences, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Public Health and Community Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Smoking and COPD, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias Ismael Cosío Villegas, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Division of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- St. John of God Hospital, Subiaco, WA, Australia
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Keelung Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Keelung, Taiwan
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Research Institute, HCor-Hospital do Coração, São Paulo, Brazil
- Research Institute, BRICNet - Brazilian Research in Intensive Care Network, São Paulo, Brazil
- IDor Research Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
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- National Engineering Research Center for the Emergency Drug, Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Centre for Journalology, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Stanford Prevention Research Center, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Meta-Research Innovation Center Berlin (METRIC-B), Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany
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- Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
- Department of Clinical Research, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
- Meta-Research Innovation Center Berlin (METRIC-B), Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
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Hurst JH, McCumber AW, Aquino JN, Rodriguez J, Heston SM, Lugo DJ, Rotta AT, Turner NA, Pfeiffer TS, Gurley TC, Moody MA, Denny TN, Rawls JF, Woods CW, Kelly MS. Age-related changes in the upper respiratory microbiome are associated with SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility and illness severity. medRxiv 2021:2021.03.20.21252680. [PMID: 33791716 PMCID: PMC8010748 DOI: 10.1101/2021.03.20.21252680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Children are less susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 and typically have milder illness courses than adults. We studied the nasopharyngeal microbiomes of 274 children, adolescents, and young adults with SARS-CoV-2 exposure using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. We find that higher abundances of Corynebacterium species are associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and SARS-CoV-2-associated respiratory symptoms, while higher abundances of Dolosigranulum pigrum are present in SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals without respiratory symptoms. We also demonstrate that the abundances of these bacteria are strongly, and independently, associated with age, suggesting that the nasopharyngeal microbiome may be a potentially modifiable mechanism by which age influences SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility and severity. SUMMARY Evaluation of nasopharyngeal microbiome profiles in children, adolescents, and young adults with a SARS-CoV-2-infected close contact identified specific bacterial species that vary in abundance with age and are associated with SARS-CoV-2 susceptibility and the presence of SARS-CoV-2-associated respiratory symptoms.
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Shoff C, Funaro J, Fischer KM, Boreyko J, Shroba J, Mando-Vandrick J, Liu B, Lee HJ, Spires SS, Turner NA, Theophanous R, Staton C, Moehring RW, Wrenn R. 45. Antimicrobial Stewardship for Urinary Tract Infection in Three Emergency Departments Across a Health System. Open Forum Infect Dis 2020. [PMCID: PMC7777005 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Background Broad spectrum antibiotics are often prescribed to patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) for evaluation of urinary tract infection and pyelonephritis (UTI). We evaluated the effect of a target-specific antibiogram, education, and feedback on UTI diagnosis and antibiotic prescribing in this setting. Methods We created a urine-specific antibiogram from patients seen and treated without admission at three ED locations (one academic and two community hospitals). We then provided a treatment algorithm and supplemental educational content to ED providers in November 2019. Educational content highlighted appropriate diagnosis, antibiotic selection, and treatment duration for UTI. Adult encounters with appropriate ICD-9/10 codes within twelve months prior to content delivery comprised the preintervention cohort. The postintervention cohort consisted of adult visits following educational intervention until April 17, 2020. During the postintervention phase (November 2019 to April 2020), summary data regarding UTI diagnoses and guideline-concordant prescriptions were fed back routinely to ED providers through email. Guideline-concordant prescriptions were defined as those adhering to first or second-line therapy in the treatment algorithm. The proportion of prescriptions meeting this definition fulfilled the primary outcome. An interrupted time series analysis measured changes in guideline concordance. Results Data from 6,713 distinct encounters were analyzed across the three sites. While guideline concordant prescribing increased following intervention at all locations (30.9% to 38.8%, 48.1% to 49.1%, and 48.2% to 59.6%), these increases were not statistically significant (Figures 1, 2, and 3). The proportion of all ED encounters with a UTI diagnosis did not differ following the intervention. Interestingly, guideline concordance was greater in the academic ED, compared to the community hospitals. ![]()
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Conclusion Although guideline concordant prescribing for UTI increased in all three ED settings with education and email correspondence feedback, these results were not statistically significant. A variety of methods may be required to realize improved antibiotic prescribing across a diverse group of clinicians. Disclosures Rebekah W. Moehring, MD, MPH, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (Grant/Research Support)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Grant/Research Support)
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- Duke Regional Hospital, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC
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Turner NA, Seidelman JL, Wrenn R, Anderson DJ, Lewis SS, Smith BA. 799. Mini Root Cause Analysis Reveals Opportunities for Reducing Clostridioides difficile Infection Rates. Open Forum Infect Dis 2020. [PMCID: PMC7777116 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Background C. difficile remains the single most common pathogen among healthcare-associated infections. We conducted a multi-center, prospective study using on-site, near real-time root cause analyses to identify opportunities for reducing hospital-onset C. difficile infection rates (HO-CID). Methods This prospective cohort study enrolled inpatients with HO-CDI admitted to one of 20 participating hospitals in the southeastern United States from July 2019 to June 2020. For each HO-CDI case, mini root cause analyses were conducted by on-site physicians, infection preventionists, or stewardship pharmacists to assess appropriateness of C. difficile testing and inpatient antibiotic use from the 30 days preceding HO-CDI diagnosis. Results The cohort captured 554 total HO-CDI cases and 956 antibiotic use events. 147 (26.5%) of HO-CDI cases were adjudicated as likely inappropriate and a further 51 (9.2%) as potentially inappropriate. Among inappropriately tested cases, 103 (52.0%) had received either laxatives or tube feeds in the preceding 48 hours. 132 (13.8%) of antibiotic use events were identified as potentially inappropriate. Among potentially inappropriate antibiotic use events, 40 (30.3%) received unnecessarily broad-spectrum antibiotics, 20 (15.2%) lacked a confirmed infectious diagnosis, and 4 (3.0%) received a longer than guideline-recommended duration. Risk of inappropriate antibiotic use varied by infection type, with treatment of urinary tract infection being associated with the highest risk of inappropriate antibiotic use (table 1). Table 1: Relative Risk of Inappropriate Antibiotic Use by Indication ![]()
Conclusion Mini root cause analyses may be a helpful tool for identifying -specific opportunities to reduce HO-CDI rates. We found a high rate of inappropriate testing, usually related to alternative causes for diarrhea such as laxative receipt or tube feeds. While rates of inappropriate antibiotic use were lower than has been reported elsewhere, the majority of opportunities for improvement related to overly broad-spectrum coverage. Urinary tract infections were most strongly associated with inappropriate antibiotic use preceding HO-CDI. Disclosures All Authors: No reported disclosures
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC
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Warren BG, Turner NA, Addison R, Nelson A, Marden S, Gamez I, Smith BA, Polage CR, Weber DJ, Weber DJ, Rutala W, Sickbert-Bennett E, Anderson DJ. 782. Clostridioides difficile environmental contamination in hospitalized patients with diarrhea: a pilot study. Open Forum Infect Dis 2020. [PMCID: PMC7778083 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Background
The relative contribution of Clostridioides difficile colonization or infection in contamination of the hospital environment is poorly understood.
Methods
We performed a prospective cohort study of patients with diarrhea who were tested for C. difficile infection via PCR and enzyme immunoassay (EIA) to compare C. difficile environmental contamination by test result. Patients were stratified into one of three cohorts: PCR-, PCR+/EIA+ or PCR+/EIA-. Environmental microbiological samples were taken within 24 hours of C. difficile cultures and again for two successive days for a total of three days. Patients were excluded if they had C. difficile infection in the past 6-weeks. Microbiological samples of surfaces were obtained with pre-moistened cellulose sponges from three locations (bathroom, adjacent to bed, and care areas) and processed using the stomacher technique. Ribotyping was completed on a subset of stool and environmental samples to measure concordance of isolates. CFU and recovery rates between arms were compared with a global ANOVA followed by pairwise comparisons using a Bonferroni adjustment.
Results
We enrolled 41 patients between November 2019 and March 2020. 7 patients were PCR+/EIA+, 8 were PCR+/EIA- and 26 were PCR- (Table 1). A total of 347 individual and 116 room samples were obtained. PCR+/EIA+ patient rooms had a higher average room burden (435.6 CFU (95%CI: 178.0-694.0)) compared to PCR+/EIA- (83.5 (-9.1-175.0), p< 0.01) and PCR- rooms (17.1 (1.2-33.0), p< 0.01); PCR+/EIA- and PCR- rooms were similar (p=0.83). PCR+/EIA+ patient rooms had a higher recovery rate (61%) compared to PCR+/EIA- (36%, p=0.64), although not statistically significant, and PCR- rooms (16%, p< 0.01); PCR+/EIA- had a similar recovery rate to PCR- rooms (p=0.14) (Table 2). Of the rooms with both patient and environmental isolates, 79% of patient isolates had a concordant isolate recovered in the environment.
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Conclusion
The amount of environmental contamination of PCR+/EIA+ patients was higher than both PCR+/EIA- and PCR- patients, however, the recovery rate of PCR+/EIA+ patients was similar to PCR+/EIA- patients. Subsequent larger trials are needed to expand on this pilot data to determine the difference, if any, between environmental contamination levels of these patient populations.
Disclosures
David J. Weber, MD, MPH, PDI (Consultant)
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC
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Yarrington ME, Wrenn R, Spivey J, Shoff C, Spires SS, Turner NA, Smith MJ, Diez A, Anderson DJ, Moehring RW. 224. Effect of Easing Overnight Restrictions on Antimicrobial Starts. Open Forum Infect Dis 2020. [PMCID: PMC7777069 DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Some institutions allow administration of restricted antibiotics overnight until evaluation the following day (i.e. first dose free) to adapt to limitations in personnel resources. Whether this method results in higher number of overnight requests compared to strict 24/7 preauthorization has not been fully described. Methods In October 2019, Duke University Hospital (DUH) changed from strict preauthorization to allow initiation of two restricted agents (meropenem and micafungin) between the hours of 11pm to 7am. We performed an interrupted time series (ITS) analysis to evaluate the phase shift and change in trend in the number of new meropenem and micafungin orders per week before (Jan 2019-Oct 2019) and after (Oct 2019- Mar 2020) the process change. First antimicrobial orders for meropenem and micafungin were counted for unique patient encounters. We fit a Gaussian distribution function to the number of orders per hour of day to estimate the percent of orders initiated overnight (11p-7a) and during day/evening hours (7a-11p) before and after the process change. Results Hospital data included 1728 new meropenem and micafungin orders over a 61-week period (~28 per week). The total number of meropenem and micafungin orders was constant between Jan 2019 and October 2019 (+0.07 orders/week, 95% CI -0.13 to 0.27, Figure 1) and the phase shift during the first week of October was non-significant (-4.38 orders, 95% CI -12.34 to 3.58). The number of orders increased after October 2019 (+0.70 orders/week, 95% CI 0.13 to 1.25), however a sensitivity analysis removing the largest outlier eliminates significance. The percent of total orders between 11am to 7pm increased from 13.3% to 17.2% after the intervention (Figure 2). Overall antibiotic use remained similar through the study period. Figure 1. Estimated Approvals per Week ![]()
Figure 2. Approvals by Hour of Day ![]()
Conclusion There was no significant immediate change in overnight prescribing of meropenem and micafungin, however a trend towards increased number of orders appeared after removing overnight restriction requirements. Instead of “stealth dosing”, where providers wait to enter restricted antibiotic orders until evening hours, we observed a small increase in starts in early morning hours (1am-6am). Preauthorization approaches must adapt to personnel resources and quality of life for antimicrobial stewards. Disclosures Michael J. Smith, MD, MSC.E, Kentucky Medicaid (Grant/Research Support)Merck (Grant/Research Support) Rebekah W. Moehring, MD, MPH, Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (Grant/Research Support)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Grant/Research Support)
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Affiliation(s)
- Michael E Yarrington
- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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- Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, North Carolina
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