Effectiveness of Antibiotic Prophylaxis of Infective Endocarditis for Invasive Dental Procedures in Patients With Prosthetic Heart Valves and/or History of Infective Endocarditis (PROPHETS)

University Hospital of Bordeaux

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Endocarditis; Endocarditis, Bacterial; Endocarditis Acute and Subacute

Treatments: Other: Improved practices

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05613933

CHUBX 2021/24

Details and patient eligibility

About

Infective endocarditis (IE) continues to cause serious morbidity and mortality. To reduce its incidence, antibiotic prophylaxis has been recommended before invasive dental procedures in patients with at risk predispositions. Several studies have examined the effect of antibiotic prophylaxis on the incidence of IE and have brought conflicting results. The investigators aim to evaluate the effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis before invasive dental procedures to prevent oral streptococcal infective endocarditis in patients with prosthetic heart valves and/or history of IE, using a registry-based, cluster-randomized, controlled trial. In secondary objectives, the investigators aim to analyze changes in dentists' practices.

Full description

Conducting a conventional individual-based RCT to demonstrate the efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis of IE is unfeasible and unethical but it also seems unacceptable to perpetuate potentially ineffective and ecologically deleterious antibiotic use. Since the conditions for an individual RCT are not met, the procedure performed does not directly involve the drug but rather the practices of the dentists. This trial will be based on the hypothesis that dentists of health territories (territoires de santé; TDS) allocated to the intervention arm will increase their prescription of antibiotic prophylaxis in patients with prosthetic heart valve and/or history of IE. Thus, assuming antibiotic prophylaxis is effective, the intervention arm should be associated with a decrease in the incidence of oral streptococci IE as compared to the control arm.

In the intervention arm, dentists will receive information on the study before the start of the study.Those who consent will receive information with an "antibiotic prophylaxis package" aimed to improve adherence to current guidelines. These interventions will be periodically repeated in order to ensure the persistence of their effect over time.

Among included patients, dental procedures will be classified as invasive if they imply manipulation of the gingival or periapical region of the teeth or a perforation of the oral mucosa. In these patients, exposure to antibiotic prophylaxis will be identified through the dispensation of an antibiotic treatment active against oral streptococci in the 21 days before the dental procedure. At each new invasive procedure, individuals will be followed for 3 months, until the study outcome, hospital admission for valve replacement, or death from any cause

Enrollment: 250,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All French Health Territories (Territoires de santé, TDS) will be included and each TDS will contribute as a cluster for randomization.
• All dentists working in each TDS will be included.
• Among individuals receiving an invasive dental procedure, all patients aged 18 years or more identified with prosthetic heart valves or recorded with prior infective endocarditis will be included.

Exclusion criteria

• No exclusion criteria for health territories, dentists and patient.
• However, dental procedures that had been performed less than 6 months after the date of first implantation of prosthetic heart valve won't be included.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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250,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention arm

Experimental group

Description:

In the intervention arm, dentists will receive information on the study 8 weeks before the start of the study and will be invited to consent to participate or to opt out

Treatment:

Other: Improved practices

Control arm

No Intervention group

Description:

In the clusters randomized to the control arm, no intervention will be performed and no information will be sent to dentists.