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Pneumonia Case Management Practices in Pakistan

NCT03869099 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2020-02-18

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Summary

Pneumonia in Pakistan continues to be the leading killer of children under five. Although various national and provincial programs have tried to tackle this but they have not been able to achieve the desired outcomes. Additionally, there has been limited in depth evaluation of the practices of pneumonia management at various levels of the community. The investigators, therefore, aim to establish an understanding of pneumonia case management at three levels of healthcare - community, first level care facility and practitioner level. This will be conducted through observations of pneumonia case managements practices of healthcare providers at these three levels across the country by simulated patients. Observation checklists will be developed incorporating settings and behaviors. Observation sites will be randomly selected with 32 observations made in each province. The results of this study will yield the ground reality of pneumonia case management in Pakistan. Based on the results of this study, strategies can be devised to improve case management within the community with models of regular monitoring and supervision.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Pneumonia Case Management Practices

Standard practices of pneumonia case management at three levels of health care; community level, first level care facility and practitioner level, across Pakistan.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Research Network

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Edinburgh

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Dr Tabish Hazir, MBBS, FRCPCH · Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Research Network

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Month
Max Age
5 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-01
Primary Completion
2019-06-30
Completion
2019-07-30

Countries

  • Pakistan

Study Locations

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