Surveillance Study of Candiduria in Hospitalized Patients

Retrospective Surveillance Study of Candiduria in Hospitalized Patients

The purpose of the study is to explore the epidemiology, underlying diseases, indwelling catheter duration, laboratory data, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of patients with Candiduria.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Candiduria
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: no intervention

Detailed Description

The study is a retrospective study. Investigators will review medical records of patients with Candiduria from January 2015 to December 2017 to collect data about personal data, underlying diseases, indwelling catheter duration, laboratory data of urine routines and urine cultures, the symptom of fever, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. After the data collection, investigators will run a descriptive statistics to find out the profile of the medical care of Candiduria in Taiwan.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 536

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Taiwan
  • Taichung, Taiwan, 40705
    • Taichung Veterans General Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

all patients with Candiduria

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients with Candiduria

Exclusion Criteria:

• patients without Candiduria

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
prevalence rate of Candiduria	the number of patients with Candiduria/ the number of all hospitalized patients	January 2015 to December 2017
morbidity rate of underlying diseases	the proportion of patients with every specific underlying disease	January 2015 to December 2017
indwelling catheter rate	the proportion of patients with indwelling catheter	January 2015 to December 2017
pyuria rate	the proportion of patients with pyuria	January 2015 to December 2017
Candiduria rate	the proportion of patients with Candiduria	January 2015 to December 2017
treatment rate	the proportion of patients with Candiduria treated with antifungal agents	January 2015 to December 2017
mortality rate	the number of patients who die / the number of all hospitalized patients; the number of patients who die from Candiduria/ the number of all hospitalized patients	January 2015 to December 2017
average indwelling catheter duration	The sum of indwelling catheter durations / the number of all hospitalized patients with Candiduria	January 2015 to December 2017

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Taichung Veterans General Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 1, 2019
• Primary Completion (Actual): July 31, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): September 16, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 7, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 9, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): April 10, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 8, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 5, 2020
• Last Verified: October 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: CE18273B

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No