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Fast Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing for Gram Negative Bacteremia Trial

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Gram-negative Bacteremia
Bloodstream Infection
Interventions
Diagnostic Test: Reveal
Registration Number
NCT06174649
Lead Sponsor
Duke University
Brief Summary

This study is a 2-arm, multicenter, multinational, prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial. Hospitalized subjects with blood cultures growing Gram negative bacilli (GNB) will be randomized 1:1 to have the positive blood cultures characterized using standard of care (SOC) antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) vs. a rapid AST method known as Reveal™ in addition to SOC AST. The purpose of the FAST trial is to evaluate whether use of a rapid phenotypic AST improves clinical outcomes compared to use of SOC AST methods in clinical settings with high resistance rates.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
RECRUITING
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
900
Inclusion Criteria
  1. Positive blood culture with Gram stain showing GNB
  2. Hospitalized at the time of Gram stain result
Exclusion Criteria
  1. Positive blood culture for GNB at the same institution within the prior 7 days (if known at the time of Gram stain result)
  2. Deceased at the time of Gram stain result
  3. Gram-positive bacilli, Gram-positive cocci, Gram-negative cocci, yeast, fungi, or multiple morphologies of GNB detected on Gram stain of blood culture
  4. Previous enrollment in this study

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
RevealRevealWhen a blood culture growing GNB is randomized to the Reveal arm, the positive blood culture will be characterized using Reveal, a rapid AST, and the standard of care AST.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Subject Clinical Outcomes, as measured by Desirability of Outcome Ranking (DOOR)Up to 30 days after Gram stain result

The composite 3-category DOOR outcome will assess three deleterious events (unsuccessful discharge, lack of clinical response, and undesirable events) in addition to survival up to 30 days after Gram stain result. The primary DOOR outcome measure is defined using three ordered levels. From best to worst, they are:

1. Alive without deleterious events

2. Alive with at least 1 deleterious event

3. Death

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Time to antibiotic escalationwithin 3 days from Gram stain result

Time to antibiotic escalation of Gram negative coverage in those who have antibiotic escalation within 3 days from Gram stain result.

Escalation: Changing to a broader spectrum antibiotic, addition of one or more antibiotics, or conversion of oral (PO) to intravenous (IV) route.

Hospital Stay Lengthup to 30 days post Gram stain result

Length of index stay in the hospital up to 30 days post Gram stain result, for those subjects alive at 30 days. Length of stay will be calculated as date of discharge minus date of Gram stain result.

Number of participants with new Acquisition of Multi-Drug Resistant Organism (MDRO) and/or C. difficileup to 30 days post Gram stain result

New acquisition is defined as detection of MDRO/C. difficile in subjects who do not have preceding clinical or surveillance cultures with these organisms in the prior 3 months. MDRO will be identified on routine clinical or surveillance samples using local laboratory diagnostic procedures and include:

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus species 3rd generation cephalosporin-non-susceptible Enterobacterales Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales, as defined by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention: resistant to imipenem, meropenem, doripenem, or ertapenem OR documentation that the isolate produces a carbapenemase Pseudomonas aeruginosa resistant to carbapenems/multi-drug resistant (resistant to aminoglycosides, cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, and carbapenems) Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter species Candida auris

Time to effective antibiotic therapywithin 3 days from Gram stain result

Time to effective antibiotic therapy within 3 days from Gram stain result, defined as treatment with an antibiotic (or antibiotic class) to which the blood isolate is susceptible based on standard of care (SOC) AST.

Time to antibiotic de-escalation of Gram negative coveragewithin 3 days from Gram stain result

Time to antibiotic de-escalation of Gram negative coverage in those who have antibiotic de-escalation within 3 days from Gram stain result.

De-escalation: Changing to a narrower spectrum antibiotic , cessation of one or more antibiotics, or changing from an IV to PO route of appropriate drug (i.e. IV to PO ciprofloxacin or levofloxacin).

All-Cause MortalityUp to 30 days post Gram Stain

All-cause in-hospital mortality up to 30 days post Gram stain result

Number of ICU admissionsup to 30 days post Gram stain result

ICU admission up to 30 days post Gram stain result

Trial Locations

Locations (7)

Attikon University General Hospital

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Chaidari, Attiki, Greece

Tzaneio General Hospital

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Piraeus, Greece

Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore

🇮🇳

Attavara, Mangalore, India

Rambam Health Care Campus

🇮🇱

Haifa, Israel

Meir Medical Center

🇮🇱

Kfar Saba, Israel

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC) Sergas

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La Coruña, Spain

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