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Meropenem Dosage Strategy Based on PPK Model

Phase 4
Completed
Conditions
Lower Respiratory Tract Infection
Interventions
Registration Number
NCT01944319
Lead Sponsor
Qingtao Zhou
Brief Summary

To evaluate the clinical and economical benefits of a meropenem dosage strategy based on a population pharmacokinetic(PPK)-pharmacodynamic(PD) model in lower respiratory tract infection patients.

Detailed Description

* Subjects:lower respiratory tract infection patients

* Study design:randomized control study.The patients in study group will accept meropenem therapy with the regimen decided by a software developed from a PPK-PD model. The patients in control group will accept meropenem therapy with the regimen decided by attending physician.

* Primary endpoint: clinical successful rate of meropenem therapy. The clinical efficiency of meropenem therapy will be evaluated one week later from stop of meropenem therapy.

* Second endpoint: amount of used antibiotics and bacteriological successful rate.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
79
Inclusion Criteria
  • Sixty years and older patients hospitalized at the Peking University Third Hospital with community-acquired or hospital-acquired lower respiratory tract infection.
  • Bacilli was idolated from lower respiratory tract specimens within 48 hours prior to study enrollment.
  • The pathogen was sensitive to meropenem.
  • Received broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy less than 24 hours, or no improvement after antibiotic therapy and pathogen was resistant to the used antibiotics.
Exclusion Criteria
  • Had documented hypersensitivity to carbapenems.
  • More than one pathogenic Gram-negative bacillus was isolated lower respiratory tract specimens.
  • Positive HIV antibody titre.
  • Had known or suspected tuberculosis or other infections caused by Gram-positive cocci, viruses or fungi at baseline.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Control groupRoutine meropenem therapyThe participants in control group will accept routine meropenem therapy
Study groupMeropenem therapy based on a PPK and PD modelThe participants in study group will accept meropenem therapy based on a PPK and PD model.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Clinical Success RateOne week after antibiotic therapy finished.

The clinical success or failure of meropenem therapy will be evaluated one week after stop of antibiotic therapy.

Clinical success was defined as cure or improvement of all signs and symptoms caused by the infection and no requirement for additional antibacterial therapy.

Clinical failure was defined as a persistence or worsening of any new clinical sign or symptom, development of any new clinical signs or symptoms of infection, or the requirement for other systemic antimicrobial therapy at the end of meropenem therapy.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Amount of Used Antibioticsparticipants will be followed for the duration of antibiotic therapy, an average of 10 days

Record the amount of antibiotics usage during antibiotic therapy

Bacteriological Success RateAt the end of meropenem therapy, an average of 10 days.

The bacterial success or failure will be evaluated at the end of meropenem therapy.

Bacteriological success including eradication and presumed eradication. Bacteriological failure including persistence and presumed persistence.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Peking University Third Hospita

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Haidian District, Beijing, China

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