Clinical Trial: Association between initial antibiotic prescription and 14-day hospitalization risk in infectious enteritis episodes leading to O157/EHEC diagnosis: a target trial emulation study using the JMDC Claims Database and JMDC Latter-Stage Elderly data (Japan)

Tokyo, June 12 -- UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) received information related to the study (UMIN000061873) titled 'A study on the association between early antibiotic use and hospitalization within two weeks in O157/EHEC infection' on June 11.

Study Type: Observational

Primary Sponsor: Institute - The University of Osaka

Condition: Condition - Infectious enteritis episodes leading to a diagnosis of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (O157/EHEC) infection Classification by malignancy - Others Genomic information - NO

Objective: Narrative objectives1 - Using the JMDC Claims Database and JMDC Latter-Stage Elderly data, to evaluate, within a target trial emulation framework, whether systemic antibiotic prescription on the episode...