Efficacy of Loperamide for C. Difficile Colitis and Other Diarrheal Diseases Associated With Antibiotic Therapy

Paused · Phase 4 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea, Clostridium Difficile

In brief

To determine whether symptomatic treatment of the diarrhea in CDAD reduces morbidity and mortality of this serious nosocomial infection in patients who have antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Both C. diff positive and negative patients will be included.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00591357

Run by

Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

People needed

120

Starts

2007-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-05-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients with diarrheal stools considered to be antibiotic associated

You may not qualify if…

• Inability of sign consent
• Patient with other known gastrointestinal disease
• Patients receiving tube feeding or fecal incontinence prior to receiving antibiotics

Where it is running

• VAMC — Houston, Texas, United States

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