Antibiotic Use in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Practicing Integrative Medicine

ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neonatal Infection

Treatments: Other: No antibiotic treatment; Other: Antibiotic treatment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04893343

NEO_01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this study is to describe the antibiotic use in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Germany that is practising integrative medicine. The investigators will review hospital records to find out how often and how long antibiotics were given to newborns; compare antibiotic use to other NICU in the same area; describe how sick infected newborns were (comparing those treated with or without antibiotics); and describe which anthroposophic medicines were used, how often and if there were safety problems.

Full description

A retrospective study, analysing antibiotic use in a level 2 neonatology intensive care unit (NICU) in Germany over a 4-year period from 2014 to 2017. The study will analyse frequency of antibiotic prescribing; compare antibiotic use to other level 2 NICU; compare clinical and laboratory parameters among neonates with infectious disease diagnosis managed with or without antibiotics; use and tolerability of anthroposophic medicinal products.

Enrollment: 246 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 30 days old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Admission to neonatal intensive care unit

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

246 participants in 2 patient groups

Neonatal infection with antibiotics

Description:

In-patient neonates with ICD-10 infectious disease diagnosis, treated with antibiotics

Treatment:

Other: Antibiotic treatment

Neonatal infection without antibiotics

Description:

In-patient neonates with ICD-10 infectious disease diagnosis, treated without antibiotics

Treatment:

Other: No antibiotic treatment