NCT01660204

Community-Acquired Pneumonia - Study on the Initial Treatment With Antibiotics of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

Antibiotic Treatment of Community-acquired Pneumonia: a Prospective Comparison of Dutch Guideline Advices.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,283 (actual)
• Sponsor: UMC Utrecht · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the cost(effectiveness) of three existing antibiotic strategies for patients with community-acquired pneumonia admitted to the hospital, but not the ICU.

Conditions

• Community-acquired Pneumonia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Preferred empirical treatment	The investigators are using a cluster-randomized cross-over design for preferred empirical treatment. One of the 3 treatment arms is used as preferred empirical therapy during a period of 4 consecutive months, after which preferred treatment will rotate to 1 of the other 2 regimens. The order of change is randomised per hospital, thereby controlling for inter-hospital variables and minimizing seasonal influences.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2013-11-01
• Completion: 2014-01-01
• First posted: 2012-08-08
• Last updated: 2014-04-23

Locations

7 sites across 1 country: Netherlands