Improved Use of Antibiotic Guidelines in Hospital Environment

Catholic University (KU) of Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00512772

B32220072383

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if the use of antibiotic guidelines and thus antibiotics can be improved through a description of possible barriers leading to tailored interventions.

Enrollment: 823 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosed community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)
• Diagnosed community-acquired pyelonephritis

Exclusion criteria

• CAP: hospital-acquired pneumonia; patients transferred from other hospital; death within 24h, aspiration pneumonia, immunocompromised status, palliative status, admission due to social reasons
• Pyelonephritis: urinary tract with functional or physical abnormalities, urinary catheterisation, pregnancy, (immunocompromised status, palliative status, admission due to social reasons and history of renal transplant.