NCT02548013

Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes, Outpatient Management vs Inpatient Management

Is Outpatient Management of PPROM Equivalent to Hospital Management

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 560 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ain Shams Maternity Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is to compare the maternal and neonatal outcomes in the patients with PPROM who are managed at home versus those managed at hospital, half the patients will be managed at home and the other half will be managed inpatient.

Detailed description

Now the current practice is to manage patients with PPROM at hospital, however it is not known yet whether this practice is better than outpatient management as regard maternal and neonatal outcome. There is some recent evidence that home management of PPROM is safe for both mother and neonate, home management is also more convenient with less expenses.

Conditions

• Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	outpatient management	patients if stable will be discharged to continue treatment at home
OTHER	Inpatient management	patients will continue there treatment in hospital till delivery

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-08-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-07-01
• First posted: 2015-09-14
• Last updated: 2015-09-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt