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Stress ulcer prophylaxis with a proton pump inhibitor versus placebo in critically ill patients (SUP-ICU trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
- Source :
- Trials; 4/19/2016, Vol. 17, p1-18, 18p, 1 Illustration, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- <bold>Background: </bold>Critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) are at risk of clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding, and acid suppressants are frequently used prophylactically. However, stress ulcer prophylaxis may increase the risk of serious adverse events and, additionally, the quantity and quality of evidence supporting the use of stress ulcer prophylaxis is low. The aim of the SUP-ICU trial is to assess the benefits and harms of stress ulcer prophylaxis with a proton pump inhibitor in adult patients in the ICU. We hypothesise that stress ulcer prophylaxis reduces the rate of gastrointestinal bleeding, but increases rates of nosocomial infections and myocardial ischaemia. The overall effect on mortality is unpredictable.<bold>Methods/design: </bold>The SUP-ICU trial is an investigator-initiated, pragmatic, international, multicentre, randomised, blinded, parallel-group trial of stress ulcer prophylaxis with a proton pump inhibitor versus placebo (saline) in 3350 acutely ill ICU patients at risk of gastrointestinal bleeding. The primary outcome measure is 90-day mortality. Secondary outcomes include the proportion of patients with clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding, pneumonia, Clostridium difficile infection or myocardial ischaemia, days alive without life support in the 90-day period, serious adverse reactions, 1-year mortality, and health economic analyses. The sample size will enable us to detect a 20 % relative risk difference (5 % absolute risk difference) in 90-day mortality assuming a 25 % event rate with a risk of type I error of 5 % and power of 90 %. The trial will be externally monitored according to Good Clinical Practice standards. Interim analyses will be performed after 1650 and 2500 patients.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>The SUP-ICU trial will provide high-quality data on the benefits and harms of stress ulcer prophylaxis with a proton pump inhibitor in critically ill adult patients admitted in the ICU.<bold>Trial Registration: </bold>ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02467621 . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CRITICALLY ill
PREVENTIVE medicine
PROTON pump inhibitors
PLACEBOS
GASTROINTESTINAL hemorrhage
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
MEDICAL care
PEPTIC ulcer prevention
CATASTROPHIC illness
COMPARATIVE studies
CORONARY disease
COST effectiveness
CROSS infection
DRUG administration
GASTROINTESTINAL agents
HOSPITAL costs
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL care costs
MEDICAL cooperation
RESEARCH protocols
PEPTIC ulcer
PNEUMONIA
RESEARCH
STATISTICAL sampling
TIME
EVALUATION research
TREATMENT effectiveness
PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS enterocolitis
ECONOMICS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17456215
- Volume :
- 17
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Trials
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 114694856
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1331-3