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Diagnosing Pneumonia Under Low-resource Conditions

NCT01997047 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 502

Last updated 2017-09-21

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Summary

Pneumonia is the commonest cause of death in children worldwide, killing 1.5 million children under the age of 5 years, every year. This is more than the number of children dying from AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. The current diagnostic and management protocols for managing serious respiratory diseases in children are 30 years old and are greatly in need of updating. The successful establishment of useful clinical management criteria for children with respiratory diseases will have benefits for children in low resource regions around the world. The goals of the study are:

* To determine if children with respiratory distress can be reliably diagnosed under low-resource conditions.
* To identify the clinical tests that best differentiate pneumonia from wheezy diseases. These will be used to establish updated diagnostic criteria for common pediatric lung diseases that broaden the current pneumonia algorithm by adding another for wheezy illnesses.
* The ultimate objective is to improve the management and outcome of acute respiratory conditions in children.
* Investigators also wish to test the efficacy of a locally developed cell phone oximeter probe in a low resource setting.

Conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of British Columbia

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael D Seear, FRCPC · BC's Children's Hospital

Eligibility

Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-10-31
Primary Completion
2014-04-30
Completion
2014-10-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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