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Filter by:Many elderly patients with uncomplicated treatment courses are admitted unnecessarily, which is a burden for the patient and society. Studies show that Hospital at Home (HaH) treatment is an alternative to hospitalization. The patient's risk of delirium, infection and loss of function is reduced when the patient avoids the hospital stay. HaH treatment is expected to be more cost-effective, improve patients' functional abilities and patients' satisfaction. Three municipalities, general practitioners, pre-hospital service and an emergency department (ED) in Central Denmark Region have organized the first HaH treatment model across disciplines and sectors. Specialists in the ED and the municipal acute teams provide HaH treatment for elderly acute ill patients. However, the model has not yet been evaluated. The aim of this study is to optimize the HaH treatment model for elderly acute ill patients. The objective is to increase patient satisfaction and optimize the use of resources in healthcare by avoiding unnecessary hospitalizations that impair and prolong treatment. This study is an open label randomized controlled trial (RCT) with a 1:2 allocation ratio of acute hospital admission versus HaH. During a pilot period, we tested and adapted the patient pathway of HaH to the practical reality, before we start the randomization for the RCT study. We will investigate the clinical effects and health economic consequences of HaH treatment compared with standard hospital treatment.
This study will evaluate the effect of CPAP therapy on esophageal pH and lung inflammation in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and sleep apnea.
The use of corticosteroids in patients with severe community pneumonia, bacterial infection which kills lots of patients around the world, reduces the mortality of this infection. However, there are no studies with this type of drug regarding hospital-acquired pneumonia. This will be the first multicenter randomized trial to test hydrocortisone plus standard therapy in critical care patients with nosocomial pneumonia. This intervention is inexpensive and may improve the outcome of those patients, besides having an acceptable side effects profile.
A Randomized, Double-blinded, Placebo-controlled, Parallel-treatment Group, Adaptive Design, Multi-center, Phase 2b/3 Trial to Evaluate Efficacy and Safety of NuSepin® Intravenous Infusion in COVID-19 Pneumonia Patients
Develop an emergency PanorOmics Wide Association Study (ePWAS) for the early, rapid biological and pathophysiological characterisation of known and novel Infectious Diseases in adult patients presenting to emergency departments with suspected, acute, community-acquired respiratory infectious disease (scaRID). Phase 1 1. Develop an ED-ID biobank (named ePWAS-RID). Phase 2 2. Targeted research for the discovery of novel diagnostics, prognostics and therapeutics
Clinical trial looking at safety and efficacy of suvratoxumab in prevention of pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus in high-risk patients
The purpose of this study is to determine the value of M-ROSE(microbiological rapid on-site evaluation)in severe hospital-acquired pneumonia.
Severe Community-acquired pneumonia (SCAP) is a leading global infectious cause of intensive care unit (ICU) admission (approximately 20%-30%), and the primary reason of mortality and morbidity in immunocompromised patients. There is a global increase of patients with distinct immunocompromised conditions due to the advance of cancer treatment, increasing biologics, and immunosuppressants for autoimmune diseases and growing organ transplant recipients, and it has been estimated that patients with immunocompromised conditions account for approximately 35% of all intensive care unit (ICU) admissions. Immunocompromised patients with SCAP have more factors to complicate with sepsis, respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and the mortality rate can be up to 50%. With the aim to apply early accurate antimicrobial therapy to improve clinical prognosis of SCAP patients with immunocompromised conditions, timely identification of pathogen is particularly important. Conventional microbiological diagnostic methods such as standard microbiologic cultures, microscopy, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), respiratory virus multiplex PCR, as well as pathogen-specific antigens and antibody assays, are currently commonly used to detect pathogens, although they have various limitations. However, conventional antimicrobial therapy depends on the results of conventional diagnostic methods, which may delay timely accurate antimicrobial therapy at the initial stage, and the mortality of immunocompromised patients with SCAP may be increased. Metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS), which can determine pathogens more quickly (usually within 24h) and accurately comparing with conventional diagnostic methods by analyzing cell-free nucleic acid fragments of pathogens using appropriate lower respiratory tract (LRT) specimen, is increasingly used in severe respiratory infectious disease, especially among immunocompromised patients. This study aims to determine whether mNGS (using LRT specimen) guided antimicrobial treatment improves clinical prognosis of SCAP patients with immunocompromised conditions when compared with conventional antimicrobial treatment.
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between the severity of fibrosis in the lung tissue and EGFR positivity in patients who died due to covid-19 pneumonia, with the demographic characteristics, comorbidities, biochemistry values, treatments they received, and radiological appearances. Transthoracic tru-cut biopsy will be performed on patients who have died in the intensive care unit with the diagnosis of Covid 19 pneumonia. EGFR positivity will be evaluated in the material taken. The relationship between the severity of fibrosis and the demographic data of the patients, the drugs used and their radiological appearances will be analyzed statistically.
Checkpoint inhibitor-related pneumonitis (CIP)is a common fatal immune-related adverse event of PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors. Some CIP patients have poor effect on hormone therapy, and the remission time of CIP varies greatly. Antifibrotic drugs may be effective in patients with CIP.