View clinical trials related to Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
Filter by:The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin based guidelines versus standard of care to reduce duration of antibiotic exposure in patients hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia.
Community-Acquired Pneumonia has become common. Additionally, the mortality is high. But the epidemiology of pathogen is various in different areas, which is crucial for the key treatment. In addition, the risk factors of patients who died in 3 or 7 days in china is not clear, comparing with patients who died in 14 or 28 days or who survived.
The aim of this study will be to evaluate whether a twice-daily antibiotic regimen is non-inferior to a thrice-daily regimen for the treatment of non-severe community acquired pneumonia in children presenting at a paediatric Emergency Department (ED).
Adjunctive Therapy of AndrographolidSulfonate in Community Acquired Pneumonia: A Multicenter, Randomized,Double-blinded, Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial. The hypothesis is that combination therapy with Andrographolid Sulfonatein injection and antibacterial is significantly better than antibacterial alone in achieving clinical stability among hospitalized CAP patients.
This study is based on the hypothesis that the pharmacokinetics of antibiotics in children is different from adults. Cephalosporins and macrolide antibiotics are the common drugs for children with community acquired pneumonia, the investigators aim to study the population pharmacokinetics of cephalosporins and macrolide antibiotics in children receiving the drug for treatment of community acquired pneumonia, and to correlate it with treatment effectiveness and incidence of adverse effects. Potential Impact: This novel knowledge will allow better and more rational approaches to the treatment of community acquired pneumonia. It will also set the foundation for further studies that will be able to test improved therapies that may increase treatment response in vulnerable children.
A clinical protocol was developed for the management of adult outpatients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and Pneumonia Severity Index risk classes I-II. Patients are assigned to oral azithromycin or levofloxacin according to procalcitonin (PCT) levels measured with a rapid point-of-care method. When PCT levels are <0.5 ng/ml, azithromycin, 500 mg/day is given orally for 5 days; if PCT is ≥0.5 ng/ml, levofloxacin, 500 mg/day is given orally for 7 days
The purpose of the present study is to assess the efficacy of methylprednisolone as an adjuvant therapy in patients with severe community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) (PSI 4-5). The hypothesis of the study is that methylprednisolone can decrease the mortality of severe CAP without any significant side effects,with reduction of the time to clinical stability and failure rate of treatment.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of a structured package (bundle) in reducing the use of antimicrobials and hospital stay of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), and no increase in mortality of these patients in different hospitals.
The purpose of the study is to determine if the clinical course of pneumonia is more severe when both, bacterial and viral pathogens are find as possible causative agent and how does it affect treatment.
Long-term objectives of the basic research part are improvement of CAP-management with respect to therapy, diagnosis and prevention to contribute to a better care of patients with pneumonia.