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ReviewClinical microbiology reviews2018

The Cost-Effectiveness of Rapid Diagnostic Testing for the Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections with or without Antimicrobial Stewardship.

Elina Eleftheria Pliakos, Nikolaos Andreatos, Fadi Shehadeh, Panayiotis D Ziakas, Eleftherios Mylonakis

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In one paragraph

Review in Clinical microbiology reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06069206 (Effect of Direct-from-blood Bacterial Testing on Antibiotic Administration and Clinical Outcomes), which is not on this map. Cited by 113 papers.

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113citing papers in PubMed
12.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06069206 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Effect of Direct-from-blood Bacterial Testing on Antibiotic Administration and Clinical Outcomes: A Learning Healthcare Pragmatic Randomized Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorVanderbilt University Medical CenterRan2023 to 2025Enrolled500ConditionsBloodstream Infection, Sepsis Bacterial, MRSA Bacteremia, VancomycinArmsT2Bacteria® Panel (direct-from-blood testing), Usual Care
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

113 citing papers in PubMed, 199 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Clinical impact and cost-consequence analysis of ePlex® blood culture identification panels for the rapid diagnosis of bloodstream infections: a single-center randomized controlled trial.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2024
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  2. Randomized Trial Evaluating Clinical Impact of RAPid IDentification and Susceptibility Testing for Gram-negative Bacteremia: RAPIDS-GN.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2021
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  18. Effect of Direct-from-blood Bacterial Testing on Antibiotics Administration in Adults Presenting With Acute Infection: A Randomized Trial.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Elina Eleftheria PliakosInfectious Diseases Division, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Nikolaos AndreatosInfectious Diseases Division, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Fadi ShehadehInfectious Diseases Division, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Panayiotis D ZiakasInfectious Diseases Division, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Eleftherios MylonakisInfectious Diseases Division, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, USA emylonakis@lifespan.org.
Rhode Island Hospital · USBrown University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bloodstream infections are associated with considerable morbidity and health care costs. Molecular rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs) are a promising complement to conventional laboratory methods for the diagnosis of bloodstream infections and may reduce the time to effective therapy among patients with bloodstream infections. The concurrent implementation of antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) may reinforce these benefits. The aim of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectivenesses of competing strategies for the diagnosis of bloodstream infection alone or combined with an ASP. To this effect, we constructed a decision-analytic model comparing 12 strategies for the diagnosis of bloodstream infection. The main arms compared the use of mRDT and conventional laboratory methods with or without an ASP. The baseline strategy used as the standard was the use of conventional laboratory methods without an ASP, and our decision-analytic model assessed the cost-effectivenesses of 5 principal strategies: mRDT (with and without an ASP), mRDT with an ASP, mRDT without an ASP, conventional laboratory methods with an ASP, and conventional laboratory methods without an ASP. Furthermore, based on the availability of data in the literature, we assessed the cost-effectivenesses of 7 mRDT subcategories, as follows: PCR with an ASP, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) analysis with an ASP, peptide nucleic acid fluorescent

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Antimicrobial StewardshipCost-Benefit AnalysisBacteremiaComputer SimulationDiagnostic Tests, RoutineHumansModels, TheoreticalTime Factorsbloodstream infectionscost-effectivenessdiagnosticsrapid tests

Identifiers

PMID29848775
PMCPMC6056844
OpenAlexW2807534664

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