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Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

NCT04097899 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 25

Last updated 2019-09-20

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Summary

Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (ASPs) help clinicians improve the quality of patient care and improve patient safety through increased infection cure rates, reduced treatment failures; however, there are different techniques, with variable results, of its application including what is called ASPs bundle and there is a need to investigate the effectiveness of implementing a comprehensive care bundle program including the key components of ASPs and the key items of infection control measures, this program can be called Antimicrobial Stewardship Comprehensive Care Bundle Program (ASCCBP).

Conditions

  • Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

Interventions

OTHER

implementation of antimicrobial stewardship comprehensive care bundle program on ventilator associated pneumonia patients

Construction of a comprehensive care bundle educational program. This program consisted of many elements: Antimicrobial stewardship programs, VAP bundles and infection control policy implementation and the investigators studied the impact of this program on: * Antibiotics cost. * Appropriates of antibiotic use (initiation, duration \& time of discontinuation). * Rate of resistance * Clinical outcome, infection rate \&length of stay.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Zagazig University

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • michael shaker, MD · faculty of medicine, Helwan university, Egypt

  • Heba Matar, MD · faculty of medicine, zagazig university, Egypt

  • sahar saad-eldeen, MD · faculty of medicine, zagazig university, Egypt

  • Rehab elsokkary, MD · faculty of medicine, zagazig university, Egypt

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-07-01
Primary Completion
2017-12-31
Completion
2017-12-31

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