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Hospital Admissions in Children Aged 3 Months to 5 Years Presenting With Fever to the Emergency Department

NCT01196793 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 108

Last updated 2019-09-17

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Summary

This study primarily aims to describe factors associated with hospitalisation of children aged 3 months to 5 years presenting with fever to an urban paediatric A\&E departments by describing and analysing characteristics both of those patients admitted to hospital and those managed in the community. To complement this, information on the short-term healthcare utilization by families attending the emergency department because of feverish illness will be collected. The study will be carried out in one participating centre in Switzerland and the United Kingdom, respectively, to enable a head to head comparison of the assessment and admission practices in two European countries. The resulting data will be used as the basis for further research in this area and will provide information on how to optimally structure service provision in acute febrile childhood illness.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hermione Lyall, MD · Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Months
Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-04-30
Primary Completion
2014-07-03
Completion
2014-07-03

Countries

  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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