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Children With Fever and Respiratory Symptoms at Out-of-hours Services in Norway

NCT02496559 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 401

Last updated 2015-12-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Viral self-limiting infections in respiratory organs among children are common in primary care. Serious infections have low prevalence and are challenging to distinguish from self-limiting infections.

Prescription of antibiotics in primary care is still high but stable since 2009 in Norway, and 90% of all antibiotics are prescribed in primary care.

C-reactive protein (CRP) has been especially popular in Norway for point-of-care testing in primary care, but its role in ruling-out serious infections and the cut-off value for prescribing antibiotics has been discussed a lot.

The aim of this study is to identify if pretesting with CRP of all children 0-6 year with fever or respiratory symptoms at Out-of-Hours Services will affect the prescription of antibiotics and the referral to hospital for children.

Conditions

  • Children

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Pre-consultation CRP

Use of CRP test on all children with fever before the consultation (intervention) compared to where the doctor requests a CRP test (no intervention)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Haukeland University Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Steinar Hunskår, Prof. dr.med · NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Max Age
6 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-07-31

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