Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-25 @ 3:07 AM
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2025-12-25 @ 3:07 AM
NCT ID:
NCT01581333
Brief Summary:
Clinical trial intended to reduce the antibiotic therapy duration in "in-hospital" patients with haematological diseases who develop fever and low white blood cell count (neutropenia).
Detailed Description:
The optimal duration of the empirical antimicrobial therapy (AT) in hematological patients with febrile neutropenia (FN) is unknown. The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) recommends maintaining AT at least until the neutropenia is recovered, because literally "years of experience have proven this approach to be safe and effective". This recommendation is likely to cause unnecessarily prolonged treatments, and is against the urgent need of optimizing the antimicrobial therapy proposed by IDSA. The main objective of this study is to establish whether an individualized clinical protocol is better than the standard criteria (recovery of neutropenia as the criterion to suspend the empirical AT in hematological patients with FN).
Study:
NCT01581333
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01581333