NCT04681339

Antibiotic Prescription in Children Hospitalized for Community-acquired Pneumonia

Antibiotic Prescription in Children Hospitalized for Community-acquired Pneumonia: a Prospective, Observational Study

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Months – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A study to observe how often antibiotics are prescribed in children hospitalized for pneumonia and how doctors decide if a child needs antibiotics or not. Parent satisfaction will also be recorded.

Detailed description

An observational study to document the antibiotic treatment rate of children hospitalized for community acquired pneumonia at a pediatric department with longstanding practice of restrictive antibiotic prescribing. Patients will be enrolled consecutively and treated according to in-house standard operating procedure. Antibiotic treatment rate, severity of disease and medical complication rate in antibiotic and non-antibiotic managed children, frequency of predefined factors in physician decision making on antibiotic use, and parental satisfaction will be recorded. Parents will be contacted at least 4 weeks after discharge to inquire about recurrence or readmission.

Conditions

• Community Acquired Pneumonia in Children
• Antibiotic Stewardship

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Antibiotic treatment	Antibiotic treatment
OTHER	No antibiotic treatment	No antibiotic treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-09-16
• Primary completion: 2025-12-01
• Completion: 2025-12-01
• First posted: 2020-12-23
• Last updated: 2025-01-08

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Germany