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The Evaluation of a Standardised Treatment Regimen of anti-Tuberculosis Drugs for Patients with MDR-TB (STREAM): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Nunn, AJ; Rusen, ID; Van Deun, A; Torrea, G; Phillips, PJP; Chiang, C-Y; Squire, SB; ... Meredith, SK; + view all (2014) The Evaluation of a Standardised Treatment Regimen of anti-Tuberculosis Drugs for Patients with MDR-TB (STREAM): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials , 15 (Septem) , Article 353. 10.1186/1745-6215-15-353. Green open access

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Abstract

Background: In contrast to drug-sensitive tuberculosis, the guidelines for the treatment of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) have a very poor evidence base; current recommendations, based on expert opinion, are that patients should be treated for a minimum of 20 months. A series of cohort studies conducted in Bangladesh identified a nine-month regimen with very promising results. There is a need to evaluate this regimen in comparison with the currently recommended regimen in a randomized controlled trial in a variety of settings, including patients with HIV-coinfection. Methods/Design: STREAM is a multi-centre randomized trial of n on-inferiority design comparing a nine-month regimen to the treatment currently recommended by th e World Health Organization in patients with MDR pulmonary TB with no evidence on line probe assay of fluoroquinolone or kanamycin resistance. The nine-month regimen includes clofazimine and high-dose moxifloxacin and can be extended to 11 months in the event of delay in smear conversion. The primary outcome is based on the bacteriological status of the patients at 27 months post-randomization. Based on the assumption that the nine-month regimen will be slightly more effective than the control regimen and, given a 10% margin of non-inferiority, a total of 400 patients are required to be enrolled. Health economics data are being collected on all patients in selected sites. Discussion: The results from the study in Bangladesh and cohorts in progress elsewhere are encouraging, but for this regimen to be recommended more widely than in a research setting, robust evidence is needed from a randomized clinical trial. Results from the STREAM t rial together with data fr om ongoing cohorts should provide the evidence necessary to revise current recommendations for the treatment for MDR-TB. Trial registration: This trial was registered with clincaltrials.gov (registration number: ISRCTN78372190) on 14 October 2010.

Type: Article
Title: The Evaluation of a Standardised Treatment Regimen of anti-Tuberculosis Drugs for Patients with MDR-TB (STREAM): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-353
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-353
Language: English
Additional information: © 2014 Nunn et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Keywords: Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, Multicenter randomized trial, Non-inferiority, Shorter treatment duration
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology > MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health > Infection and Population Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1443477
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