NCT05221437

Management and Outcome of Fever in Children in Europe

Personalised Risk Assessment in Febrile Illness to Optimise Real-life Management Across the European Union (PERFORM)

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 38,480 (actual)
• Sponsor: Imperial College London · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is an observational study assessing the management and outcome of children presenting to Emergency Departments (ED) with fever across Europe.

Detailed description

This is an observational study assessing the management and outcome of children presenting to Emergency Departments (ED) with fever across Europe. This study will use large departmental datasets to collect information on at least 50,000 febrile episodes . This study will use large-scale, pseudo-anonymized departmental data, and will not involve consented patient recruitment; nor will it use patient samples. Data included in MOFICHE will be based on that collected as part of routine clinical care. Antibiotic prescription, hospitalisation and number/type of investigations, re-attendance at ED within 5 days of the first hospital presentation will be recorded.

Conditions

• Antibiotic Prescription

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	antibiotic prescription

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-04-01
• Completion: 2021-12-31
• First posted: 2022-02-03
• Last updated: 2022-02-03