Overview

A Pharmacovigilance Evaluation And Assessment Of The Prescribing Practice For Tygacil In Usual Health Care Setting

Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2010-03-01
Target enrollment:
0
Participant gender:
All
Summary
To assess the efficacy and safety of Tygacil in the usual German hospital setting. The main goals are: to assess the efficacy of Tygacil under usual care conditions (cure rate); to assess the main side effects observed in daily medical practice (Safety of Tygacil); to determine whether patients are optimally dosed with Tygacil (according to the label) and the proportion of patients receiving a monotherapy versus combination therapy; to observe the potential resistance development against Tygacil in Germany; to determine which antibiotic agents are chosen for a combination therapy with Tygacil; to determine to which antibiotic substance non-responders to Tygacil are switched; to assess the duration of the intravenous therapy with Tygacil and to determine whether and which patients receive an oral antibiotic substance after the therapy with Tygacil; to collect information on profile, comorbidities and characteristics of patients treated with Tygacil.
Accepts Healthy Volunteers?
No
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Pfizer
Treatments:
Tigecycline
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:

- Actual or planned therapy with tigecycline.

- At least 18 years old.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Hypersensitivity to antibiotics or tigecycline.