NCT00735592

Value of Radiological Follow up in Children Hospitalized With Lobar Pneumonia

The Study Intend to Evaluate the Usefulness of Performing a Follow up X Rays in Children Admitted With Lobar Pneumonia.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: HaEmek Medical Center, Israel · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Months – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study intends to assess the utility of performing a follow up X rays in children admitted to pediatric wards with lobar pneumonia. Usually those children are discharged with a recommendation for a follow up X rays but there are no enough studies proving that this recommendation is really necessary.

Detailed description

Thew study will include follow up data in a group of about 200 patients admitted with lobar pneumonia during the years 2006 to 2007. All the clinical and laboratory data will be collected and also the X rays findings. The findings of follow up X rays if they were performed will also be summarized.

Conditions

• Pneumonia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Observational	Retrospective data obtained from electronic files

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-03-01
• Primary completion: 2010-02-01
• Completion: 2010-02-01
• First posted: 2008-08-15
• Last updated: 2011-08-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel