NCT06249451

Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteraemia (SAB)-Support-Study

SAB-Support-Study: Can Checklist-based Phone Calls Improve the Quality of Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteraemia (SAB) Management

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 124 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Medicine Greifswald · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main objective of this study is to investigate whether checklist-based close telephone consultation and process surveillance for S. aureus bacteraemia (SAB) can improve adherence to our in-house SAB-guidelines (prospective quality- improvement group). In addition, the effects of telephone consultation on the clinical outcome of patients will be examined.

Conditions

• Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Checklist-based phone calls	The treating doctor will be called on day 1 and 12 after SAB diagnosis to point out the standard of care (as per our evidence-based in-hospital standard operating procedure (SOP)) for SAB. On day 2 and 6 after SAB diagnosis, there will be additional phone calls if clinical management does not follow hospital guidelines. The study team will also leave comments in the medical charts of the respective patients if the management does not follow hospital guidelines.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-01-22
• Primary completion: 2024-11-19
• Completion: 2025-01-18
• First posted: 2024-02-08
• Last updated: 2025-11-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany