Study to Demonstrate That Antibiotics Are Not Needed in Moderate Acute Exacerbations of COPD

Summary

The ultimate goal is to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions which drive the development of antibiotic resistance in the community. The primary objective of ABACOPD is to demonstrate in a sufficiently sized clinical study that there is no relevant increase in the "failure-rate" for patients with acute moderate exacerbations of COPD (AE-COPD) treated with placebo instead of antibiotic treatment both on top of standard of care. A patient is classified as treatment failure if additional antibiotic therapy is required during treatment period or until the test of cure visit (TOC at day 30, primary endpoint).

Timeline

Start

2013-06-07

Primary completion

2019-04-23

Completion

2019-06-05

Publications

• Rohde GG, Koch A, Welte T; ABACOPD study group. Randomized double blind placebo-controlled study to demonstrate that antibiotics are not needed in moderate acute exacerbations of COPD--the ABACOPD study. BMC Pulm Med. 2015 Jan 27;15:5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2466-15-5.

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