Multicenter Intervention Program to Optimize the Clinical Management of Community-acquired Pneumonia in Hospitals

Fundación Pública Andaluza Progreso y Salud

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Community Acquired Pneumonia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02224716

FIS-ANT-2014-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of a structured package (bundle) in reducing the use of antimicrobials and hospital stay of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), and no increase in mortality of these patients in different hospitals.

Enrollment: 968 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of CAP at hospital admission .
• Age: 18 years or more.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with nosocomial pneumonia or criteria related to health care.
• Patients with severe immunosuppression (HIV infection with <200 CD4+ lymphocytes / mm3), neutropenia (<500 neutrophils / mm3).
• Patient treated with immunosuppressive drugs.

Trial design

968 participants in 2 patient groups

Pre-intervention All patients admitted with a diagnosis of CAP

Post intervention All patient admitted with a diagnosis of CAP