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Oral vancomycin prophylaxis during systemic antibiotic exposure to prevent Clostridiodes difficile infection relapses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2019

Daniel A. Caroff ,
John T. Menchaca ,
Zilu Zhang ,
Chanu Rhee ,
Michael S. Calderwood ,
David W. Kubiak ,
Deborah S. Yokoe  and
Michael Klompas
Daniel A. Caroff*
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, Boston, Massachusetts Department of Infectious Disease, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts
John T. Menchaca
Affiliation:
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Zilu Zhang
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Chanu Rhee
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, Boston, Massachusetts Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Michael S. Calderwood
Affiliation:
Section of Infectious Disease and International Health, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire
David W. Kubiak
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Massachusetts
Deborah S. Yokoe
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, California.
Michael Klompas
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Institute, Boston, Massachusetts Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Author for correspondence: Daniel A. Caroff, E-mail: dcaroff@gmail.com; Michael Klompas, E-mail: mklompas@partners.org
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Abstract

Objective:

To determine whether oral vancomycin prophylaxis accompanying systemic antibiotics reduces the risk of relapse in patients with history of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI).

Design:

Retrospective cohort study.

Patients:

Adult inpatients with a history of CDI who received systemic antibiotics in either of 2 hospitals between January 2009 and June 2015.

Methods:

We compared relapse rates in patients who started oral vancomycin concurrently with systemic antibiotics (exposed group) versus those who did not. We assessed for CDI relapse by toxin or nucleic acid testing at 90 days. We used inverse probability weighting and machine learning to adjust for confounders, to estimate propensity for treatment, and to calculate odds ratios for CDI relapse. We performed secondary analyses limited to toxin-positive relapses, patients with 1 versus >1 prior CDI episodes, and patients who received oral vancomycin on each antibiotic day.

Results:

CDI relapse occurred within 90 days in 19 of 193 exposed patients (9.8%) versus 53 of 567 unexposed patients (9.4%; unadjusted odds ratio [OR], 1.06; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.60–1.81; adjusted OR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.35–1.14). CDI relapses at 90 days were less frequent in exposed patients with only 1 prior episode of CDI (OR, 0.42; 95% CI, 0.19–0.93) but not in those with >1 prior episode (OR, 1.19; 95% CI, 0.42–3.33). Our findings were consistent with a lack of benefit of oral vancomycin when restricting results to toxin-positive relapses and to patients who received vancomycin each antibiotic day.

Conclusions:

Prophylactic oral vancomycin was not consistently associated with reduced risk of CDI relapse among hospitalized patients receiving systemic antibiotics. However, patients with only 1 prior CDI episode may benefit.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 40 , Issue 6 , June 2019 , pp. 662 - 667
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© 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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