Health Care Utilization Clinical Trial
— HIT BSIOfficial title:
Health Itinerary of Young Children With Suspected Bloodstream Infection in Kisantu General Referral Hospital, DR Congo: a Cohort Study
NCT number | NCT04289688 |
Other study ID # | ITM202003 |
Secondary ID | |
Status | Completed |
Phase | |
First received | |
Last updated | |
Start date | February 1, 2021 |
Est. completion date | July 31, 2022 |
Verified date | September 2022 |
Source | Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Observational |
Bloodstream infections are frequent in children admitted to the hospital for severe febrile illness in sub-Saharan Africa.Ongoing blood culture surveillance at Kisantu Hospital showed non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) as the first cause of bloodstream infections in children. Bloodstream infections have a high case fatality (15 - 20%). Outcome of bloodstream infections is dependent on timely diagnosis and treatment. However, observations at Kisantu Hospital showed that many children arrive late and die early after admission. By interviewing caregivers of severely ill children admitted to Kisantu Hospital, the investigators aim to study their health itinerary, i.e. the sequence of all actions of health care seeking and care provision between the onset of febrile illness and the admission at the hospital. The investigators aim to assess the health itinerary according to the "three delays" model. The three delays model studies delays and practices at the level of health care seeking, of transport and of start of antibiotic treatment.10 Visits to referring health centers will provide complementary information about diagnosis, treatment and referral practices. In hospital follow-up will allow to assess the outcome according to the duration of health itinerary. The results of routine laboratory tests upon hospital admission will allow to stratify the health itinerary according to fever etiology. The results of this study will allow to understand the duration of the health itinerary, its possible association with case-fatality, and factors explaining for delays at every level. This information is expected to orient local health policy makers towards interventions shortening the duration of the health itinerary and in that case improve and monitor the referral system. In addition, the study results are expected to orient towards further research to understand health seeking behavior (i.e. focus-group discussions and community-based studies).
Status | Completed |
Enrollment | 784 |
Est. completion date | July 31, 2022 |
Est. primary completion date | July 31, 2022 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | |
Gender | All |
Age group | 28 Days to 5 Years |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Be a child between 28 days and 5 years old - Be admitted to Kisantu Hospital - Have a suspected bloodstream infection, which is defined as the presence of objective fever, hypothermia or a history of fever during the past 48 hours and at least one of the following criteria: Hypotension, confusion or increased respiratory rate/Suspicion of severe localized infection: pneumonia, meningitis, osteomyelitis, complicated urinary tract infection, abscess, skin/soft tissue infection or abdominal infection/ Suspicion of typhoid fever/ Suspicion of severe malaria - Having a caregiver willing and able to provide written informed consent Exclusion Criteria: - |
Country | Name | City | State |
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Congo, The Democratic Republic of the | Hôpital Saint-Luc Kisantu | Kisantu |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium | Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders, Belgium, Hôpital Saint-Luc, Kisantu, République Démocratique du Congo, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale. Kinshasa, République Démocratique du Congo, KU Leuven |
Congo, The Democratic Republic of the,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Describe health itineraries based on the three delays model in hospital admitted children with suspected bloodstream infection | 7 months | ||
Primary | Assess which exposure factors variables are associated with the duration of the health itinerary in hospital admitted children with suspected bloodstream infection | 7 months | ||
Secondary | Assess the association between the duration of the health itinerary and in hospital case fatality in hospital admitted children with suspected bloodstream infection | 7 Months | ||
Secondary | Describe health itinerary based on the three delays model | Stratification will be done according to the confirmed bloodstream infection:
non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) bloodstream infection, Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria, Pf malaria and bloodstream infection Pf malaria and NTS bloodstream infection |
7 months | |
Secondary | Assess which factors influence the duration of the health itinerary, stratified per diagnostic category | Stratification will be done according to the confirmed bloodstream infection:
non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) bloodstream infection, Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria, Pf malaria and bloodstream infection Pf malaria and NTS bloodstream infection |
7 months | |
Secondary | Assess the association between the duration of the health itinerary and in hospital case fatality | Stratification will be done according to the confirmed bloodstream infection:
non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) bloodstream infection, Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria, Pf malaria and bloodstream infection Pf malaria and NTS bloodstream infection |
7 months | |
Secondary | Assess the diagnostic, therapeutic and referral practices at referring health centers in hospital admitted children with suspected bloodstream infection | 7 months | ||
Secondary | Assess the diagnostic and therapeutic practices before hospital admission per health care provider in hospital admitted children with suspected bloodstream infection | 7 months | ||
Secondary | Assess the coverage of blood cultures. | 7 months |
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