Dental care REsistance prevention and Antibiotic prescribing Modification ? the DREAM trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Antibiotic prescribing in dental primary care; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN09576376
• Lead Sponsor: Medical University of Rostock (Universitätsmedizin Rostock) (Germany)

Brief Summary

2014 protocol in: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24559212

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2013-04-30
• Study Completion: 2015-03-31
• Last Update Posted: 6 July 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 46000

Inclusion Criteria

1. Primary care dentists and their male and female patient population of all ages in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Germany).
2. Patients aged 18 years or older seen by their dentists for an odontogenic infection or abscess, and who have not been treated for such a condition in the previous six months, are eligible for being recruited into the subgroup (swabs).

Exclusion Criteria

To investigate antibiotic prescribing the DREAM trial includes the entire patient population of participating dental practices.

Exclusion criteria for patients in the subgroup include:
1. Younger than 18 years
2. Not being able to give informed consent (e.g. in case of dementia)
3. Consulting the dentist during the emergency service
4. Suffering from immunosuppression or malignoma
5. Having a disease-related life expectancy of less than 12 months

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified