Surviving Pneumonia

Nordsjaellands Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Community-acquired Pneumonia

Treatments: Other: No intervention

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03795662

Surviving Pneumonia

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aims to explore risk factors for poor prognosis among patients admitted with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). During a 5-year study period, all patients (aged ≥ 18 years) admitted with CAP at North Zealand Hospital will be invited for inclusion. Questionnaires, anthropometric measures, laboratory tests, and biomaterials will be collected at admission, daily during admission, at discharge and at follow-up. The main clinical outcomes of the study consist of deaths and development of diabetes.

Enrollment: 2,500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Infiltrate on chest radiograph plus one or more of the following:

  • Fever (temperature, ≥38.0°C)
  • Hypothermia (<35.0°C),
  • New cough with or without sputum production
  • Pleuritic chest pain
  • Dyspnea
  • Altered breath sounds on auscultation.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients unable to give informed consent
• Patients unwilling to give informed consent

Trial design

2,500 participants in 1 patient group

Community-acquired pneumonia

Description:

Adults over 18 years old admitted with confirmed community-acquired pneumonia.

Treatment:

Other: No intervention