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Last refreshed on: 16 December 2017
Main ID:  NCT01875731
Date of registration: 10/06/2013
Prospective Registration: Yes
Primary sponsor: Hospital General de Niños Pedro de Elizalde
Public title: Bacterial Pneumonia Score (BPS) Guided Antibiotic Use in Children With Pneumonia and Pneumococcal Vaccine
Scientific title: Efficacy of BPS (Bacterial Pneumonia Score) Guided Antibiotic Use in Children With Community Acquired Pneumonia on Reducing Antibiotic Use as Compared to Standard Care Practice (Current Guidelines for CAP) in the Era of Pneumococcal Vaccine
Date of first enrolment: July 2013
Target sample size: 66
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01875731
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Diagnostic. Masking: Single (Investigator).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Argentina
Contacts
Name:     Fernando A Torres, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  Hospital de Niños Pedro de Elizalde
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Children aged 3-60 months assisted as outpatients for non severe community acquired
pneumonia and pneumoccocal vaccine and complete immunisation with pneumoccocal
vaccine.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Wheezing

- Severe pneumonia

- Pulmonary or cardiovascular chronic disease

- Antibiotic use in the previous two weeks

- Hospitalization for any reason in the previous two weeks



Age minimum: 3 Months
Age maximum: 5 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Community Acquired Pneumonia
Intervention(s)
Behavioral: BPS
Behavioral: Guideline
Primary Outcome(s)
Use of Antibiotics in Each Group [Time Frame: At day 7 from baseline]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Treatment Failure in Each Group [Time Frame: 1, 2, 5, 7 and 10 days from baseline]
Secondary ID(s)
HGNPE 67-2012
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
Results available: Yes
Date Posted: 04/05/2015
Date Completed:
URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT01875731
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