NCT03354325

The Bronchiolitis Follow-up Intervention Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 304 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Utah · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 2 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the value of routine follow-up with a child's pediatrician after hospitalization for bronchiolitis. Parents of half of participants will be instructed to follow-up with the child's pediatrician regardless of symptom resolution, while the other half will be instructed to follow-up on an as-needed basis (only if the child worsens, doesn't improve, or other concerns develop).

Detailed description

Bronchiolitis is highly prevalent and burdensome among children less than 2 years of age. For this reason, many therapies have been tried by providers and studied by researchers. Unfortunately, interventions have largely been shown to be ineffective, prompting campaigns to reduce use of ineffective therapies. One commonly prescribed but thus far unstudied intervention often provided to children discharged after hospitalization for bronchiolitis is routine follow up with their pediatrician. Whether the costs and time spent for these visits are worthwhile depends on the extent to which the child and the child's parents benefit.

Conditions

• Bronchiolitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Scheduled PCP follow-up	Parents of children randomized to scheduled follow up will be instructed to follow up with their primary care physician within 4 days of discharge regardless of improvement and/or symptom resolution. Research coordinators will verify that the child has a scheduled follow up appointment prior to discharge.
BEHAVIORAL	As needed PCP follow-up	At the time of hospital discharge, parents will be instructed that the child does not need to automatically follow up with his/her primary care physician. Rather, the child should follow up on an as needed basis: if the child does not improve or if new concerns arise.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-04-24
• Completion: 2019-05-14
• First posted: 2017-11-27
• Last updated: 2020-05-19
• Results posted: 2020-05-19

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States