Status:
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
E-PAUse: Encouraging Proper Antibiotic Use in Outpatient Setting
Lead Sponsor:
Hamad Medical Corporation
Collaborating Sponsors:
Primary Health Care Corporation, Qatar
Conditions:
Drug Use
Eligibility:
All Genders
2-120 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Specific Aim 1: To determine the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) of PHCC physicians regarding appropriate prescription of antibiotics in the outpatient setting. Hypothesis 1a: PHCC physicians...
Detailed Description
As above.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients \>2 years old presenting to any of the selected PHCCs (rationale: signs and symptoms of bacterial infection in very young children are more non-specific and empiric antibiotics are often indicated due to serious consequences of unrecognized and untreated bacterial infections)
- Presenting with acute (\<1 week of symptoms) upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) like illness including
- common cold/acute rhinitis/nasopharyngitis
- laryngitis/laryngotracheitis
- Acute bronchitis
- acute otitis media
- influenza (confirmed or influenza-like illness)
- pharyngitis/tonsillitis
- acute sinusitis
Exclusion
- Known immune compromised status, e.g., cystic fibrosis, cancer, organ transplant recipient.
- On immune suppressive therapy for any duration (e.g., steroids, disease modifying antirheumatic agents; cancer chemotherapy, anti-rejection drugs, etc.) in one year prior to presentation
- Known or diagnosed bacterial cause of infection.
- Severe systemic illness requiring referral to the emergency department or hospitalization within 24 hours of presentation
- Known or suspected chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Asplenic patients (anatomic or functional)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
December 1 2023
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
April 30 2026
Estimated Enrollment :
100000 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT06135376
Start Date
December 1 2023
End Date
April 30 2026
Last Update
April 3 2025
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PHCC
Doha, Qatar