Longer than 2 hours to antibiotics is associated with doubling of mortality in a multinational community-acquired bacterial meningitis cohort
Eisen, Damon P., Hamilton, Elizabeth, Bodilsen, Jacob, Køster-Rasmussen, Rasmus, Stockdale, Alexander J,, Miner, James, Nielsen, Henrik, Dzupova, Olga, Sethi, Varun, Copson, Rachel K., Harings, Miriam, and Adegboye, Oyelola A. (2022) Longer than 2 hours to antibiotics is associated with doubling of mortality in a multinational community-acquired bacterial meningitis cohort. Scientific Reports, 12. 672.
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Abstract
To optimally define the association between time to effective antibiotic therapy and clinical outcomes in adult community-acquired bacterial meningitis. A systematic review of the literature describing the association between time to antibiotics and death or neurological impairment due to adult community-acquired bacterial meningitis was performed. A retrospective cohort, multivariable and propensity-score based analyses were performed using individual patient clinical data from Australian, Danish and United Kingdom studies. Heterogeneity of published observational study designs precluded meta-analysis of aggregate data (I2 = 90.1%, 95% CI 71.9–98.3%). Individual patient data on 659 subjects were made available for analysis. Multivariable analysis was performed on 180–362 propensity-score matched data. The risk of death (adjusted odds ratio, aOR) associated with treatment after two hours was 2.29 (95% CI 1.28–4.09) and increased substantially thereafter. Similarly, time to antibiotics of greater than three hours was associated with an increase in the occurrence of neurological impairment (aOR 1.79, 95% CI 1.03–3.14). Among patients with community-acquired bacterial meningitis, odds of mortality increase markedly when antibiotics are given later than two hours after presentation to the hospital.
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| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
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| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2022 22:57 |
| FoR Codes: | 49 MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES > 4905 Statistics > 490502 Biostatistics @ 34% 32 BIOMEDICAL AND CLINICAL SCIENCES > 3202 Clinical sciences > 320211 Infectious diseases @ 33% 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3107 Microbiology > 310702 Infectious agents @ 33% |
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