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INSPIRE Trial for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

Not Applicable
Active, not recruiting
Conditions
Skin and Soft Tissue (SST) Infection
Registration Number
NCT05423756
Lead Sponsor
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Brief Summary

The INSPIRE Skin and Soft Tissue Infection trial is a cluster-randomized controlled trial of HCA Healthcare hospitals comparing routine empiric antibiotic stewardship practices with real-time, precision medicine computerized physician order entry (CPOE) smart prompts providing the probability that a non-critically ill adult admitted with skin and soft tissue infection is infected with a resistant pathogen.

Note: enrolled "subjects" represent 102 individual HCA Healthcare hospitals that have been randomized into 92 clusters. Hospitals were grouped into the same randomization cluster if they shared campuses or antibiotic stewardship staff.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
102
Inclusion Criteria
  1. HCA Healthcare hospitals admitting adults for skin and soft tissue infection
  2. Facility use of MEDITECH as their electronic health record system

Facility

Exclusion Criteria

Note: unit of randomization is the hospital, however the computerized physician order entry (CPOE) alert intervention will calculate risk estimates for adults age >=18 admitted to non-intensive care unit wards and who are ordered to receive extended-spectrum antibiotics for skin and soft tissue infection.

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Empiric Extended-Spectrum Antibacterial Days of Therapy (Empiric ES-DOT)12 month intervention

The number of different extended-spectrum antibacterials on each of the first 3 days of hospitalization.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Antipseudomonal Antibiotic Days of Therapy per Empiric Day12 months

The number of different antipseudomonal antibiotics, per empiric day, summed across the first 3 days of hospitalization.

Trial Locations

Locations (102)

Riverside Community hospital

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Riverside, California, United States

Regional Medical Center of San Jose

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San Jose, California, United States

Good Samaritan Hospital

🇺🇸

San Jose, California, United States

Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center

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Thousand Oaks, California, United States

West Hills Hospital & Medical Center

🇺🇸

West Hills, California, United States

The Medical Center of Aurora

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Aurora, Colorado, United States

Swedish Medical Center

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Englewood, Colorado, United States

Sky Ridge Medical Center

🇺🇸

Lone Tree, Colorado, United States

North Suburban Medical Center

🇺🇸

Thornton, Colorado, United States

Blake Medical Center

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Bradenton, Florida, United States

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Riverside Community hospital
🇺🇸Riverside, California, United States

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