Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Peking Union Medical College Graduate School, Nanjing, China.
Statistical Genetics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Herston, Queensland, Australia.
BMJ Open. 2021 Sep 21;11(9):e048310. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048310.
Postoperative infection (PI) is one of the main severe complications after cardiovascular surgery. Therefore, antibiotics are routinely used during the first 48 hours after cardiovascular surgery. However, there is no effective method for early diagnosis of infection after cardiovascular surgery, particularly, to determine whether postoperative patients need to prolong the use of antibiotics after the first 48 hours. In this study, we aim to develop and validate a diagnostic model to help identify whether a patient has been infected after surgery and guide the appropriate use of antibiotics.
In this prospective study, we will develop and validate a diagnostic model to determine whether the patient has a bacterial infection within 48 hours after cardiovascular surgery. Baseline data will be collected through the electronic medical record system. A total of 2700 participants will be recruited (n=2000 for development, n=700 for validation). The primary outcome of the study is the newly PI during the first 48 hours after cardiovascular surgery. Logistic regression penalised with elastic net regularisation will be used for model development and bootstrap and k-fold cross-validation aggregation will be performed for internal validation. The derived model will be also externally validated in patients who are continuously included in another time period (N=700). We will evaluate the calibration and differentiation performance of the model by Hosmer-Lemeshow good of fit test and the area under the curve, respectively. We will report sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value in the validation data-set, with a target of 80% sensitivity.
Ethical approval was obtained from Medical Ethics Committee of Affiliated Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical College (2020-249-01).
Chinese Clinical Trial Register (www.chictr.org.cn, ChiCTR2000038762); Pre-results.
术后感染（PI）是心血管手术后的主要严重并发症之一。因此，心血管手术后的头 48 小时内常规使用抗生素。然而，目前尚无有效的方法用于早期诊断心血管手术后的感染，特别是确定术后患者是否需要在头 48 小时后延长抗生素的使用。在本研究中，我们旨在开发和验证一种诊断模型，以帮助确定患者手术后是否感染，并指导抗生素的合理使用。
本前瞻性研究旨在开发和验证一种诊断模型，以确定心血管手术后 48 小时内患者是否发生细菌感染。通过电子病历系统收集基线数据。共招募 2700 名参与者（n=2000 用于开发，n=700 用于验证）。研究的主要结局是心血管手术后头 48 小时内新发生的 PI。使用具有弹性网正则化的逻辑回归进行模型开发，并进行自举和 k 折交叉验证聚合进行内部验证。在另一个时间段连续纳入的患者中（n=700），还将对该模型进行外部验证。我们将分别通过 Hosmer-Lemeshow 拟合优度检验和曲线下面积评估模型的校准和区分性能。我们将在验证数据集中报告敏感性、特异性、阳性预测值和阴性预测值，目标是敏感性达到 80%。
南京鼓楼医院附属南京医科大学医学伦理委员会（2020-249-01）已批准本研究。
中国临床试验注册中心（www.chictr.org.cn，ChiCTR2000038762）；预注册结果。
