POET-II
Accelerated Treatment of Endocarditis (POET II)
Patient / Population Intervention / Exposure Comparison Outcome
In 508 patients with left-sided infective endocarditis, a tailored 2–4-week antibiotic course was compared with the standard 4–6-week course on death, unplanned cardiac surgery, relapse or embolisation at 6 months.
N
508
Design
Multicentre, multinational, open-label, non-inferiority RCT, 1:1 after clinical stabilisation (clinical, laboratory and TOE criteria), 6-month primary follow-up; Denmark and Sweden plus one US site
Endpoint
Composite of all-cause mortality, unplanned cardiac surgery, relapse of bacteraemia or embolisation within 6 months of randomisation (registry also lists days alive without antibiotic treatment at 6 months as a co-primary)