Procalcitonin to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Pediatric Pneumonia
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Brief summary
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This pilot study will evaluate study processes and feasibility of a future large-scale clinical trial that proposes to test whether low-risk children managed as outpatients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and procalcitonin (PCT) levels \<0.25 ng/mL treated with placebo have a similar clinical response to those treated with antibiotics and fewer adverse effects.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04963764
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Early Phase 1
- Enrollment
- 5 participants
Conditions and interventions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 12 Months to 71 Months
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Oct 18, 2021 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- May 27, 2022 (Actual)
- Completion
- May 27, 2022 (Actual)
- Last update posted
- Feb 15, 2024
2021 – 2022
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 3
- U.S. states
- 3
- U.S. cities
- 3
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | Chicago | Illinois | 60610 | — |
| Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | Cincinnati | Ohio | 45229 | — |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104 | — |
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