NCT02177799

Surveillance Study of Acute Gastroenteritis in Hospitalized Children in Rural Area in Lebanon

Surveillance Study of Acute Gastroenteritis in Hospitalized Children

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 150 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Shaikh Ragheb Harb Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Months – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Acute gastroenteritis is a common cause of hospitalization in children with significant socioeconomic burden on the health community, we will follow in this observational and analytical study the admitted cases of acute gastroenteritis to the pediatric floor at the Sheikh Ragheb Harb Hospital over a period of summer time to determine the causes, etiologies and epidemiology of Age in a community hospital.

Detailed description

In this survey of hospitalized cases of acute gastroenteritis, children between two months and up to ten years old are included except for known cases of chronic diarrhea, malnutrition or immunodeficiency, data collected include clinical signs and symptoms, epidemiologic information and laboratory data during the hospital stay, also hospital treatment will be reviewed to determine the therapeutic options available in our country and its convenience with the disease and clinical conditions.

Conditions

• Acute Gastroenteritis
• Diarrhea
• Rotavirus

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-07-01
• Primary completion: 2014-10-01
• First posted: 2014-06-30
• Last updated: 2014-07-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Lebanon