View clinical trials related to Upper Respiratory Infection.
Filter by:The BD Veritor™ System is a rapid test that is testing for both COVID-19 and for Influenza This study will try to determine if the BD Veritor™ system can assist in the diagnosis of someone who has upper respiratory infection symptoms. There is both an At-Home self test and test completed by a health care professional that will be completed during this study.
Findings from an ongoing improvement project to improve antibiotic prescribing for children and adolescents for three acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs: upper respiratory tract infection, acute bacterial sinusitis, and acute otitis media) among pediatric and family medicine clinics revealed performance gaps between the two primary care specialties. An improvement project was then set up to address the lower performance by family medicine clinics. Literature review revealed that, in general, quality improvement feedback was more effective if provided to individual clinicians rather than to a group of clinicians, but very limited data existed for antibiotic prescribing practices actually comparing individual clinician feedback to group (clinic-level) feedback. The hypothesis is that individual clinician data feedback is superior to group (clinic-level) feedback in improving antibiotic prescribing for ARTIs in children and adolescents by family medicine clinicians. The aim is to determine if there are significant differences for antibiotic prescribing for ARTIs and for broad spectrum antibiotic prescribing percentage between an intervention group and a comparator group of family medicine clinics after the intervention starting November 2015 and ending December 2018. A cluster randomized trial was designed for 39 family medicine clinics. The intervention group received clinician-level and clinic-level data feedback monthly, and the comparator group received clinic-level only feedback monthly.
This study aims to test the safety, efficacy and potential mechanism of action of the SinuSonic device on adults with upper respiratory infection (URI). SinuSonic is a medical device that utilizes sound and pressure combined with normal breathing. The study will have 2 aims. Aim 1 willdetermine if Sinusonic decreases the number of URIs experienced during an 8 week fall URI season. Subjects will use an active device (positive expiratory pressure and 128 Hz) or a sham device (no positive expiratory pressure and 1,000 Hz) for 1 min tid for 8 weeks. Aim 2 will determine if Sinusonic decreases the severity and duration of community acquired viral URIs. Subjects will use active or sham device as above.
Upper respiratory infection , including influenza, may exacerbate the symptoms of myasthenia gravis (MG), which is an autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakness and, in some cases, can precipitate a myasthenic crisis In the present study, we investigated the incidence and risk factors of influenza infection on in myasthenia gravis patients.
Stepped wedge behavioral intervention clinical trial looking at the impact of an antibiotic stewardship intervention on provider prescribing behavior for acute respiratory infections (ARIs), where the intervention is administered at the emergency department or urgent care center site level, using a cluster randomization process. Thus, every site and every provider are eligible to be exposed to the stewardship intervention, the cluster randomized stepped wedge process simply randomizes when they will be exposed. The overall study hypothesis is that providers will prescribe fewer unnecessary antibiotics to patients with ARIs after the intervention.
Social network targeting strategies can be used to improve the delivery and uptake of health interventions. We will enroll approximately 30,000 individuals into a randomized controlled trial of different targeting algorithms in order to explore how social network dynamics affect the uptake, diffusion, and group-level normative reinforcement of key neonatal and infant health behaviors and attitudes in 176 rural villages in the Copan region of Honduras. Our goal is to develop methods by which global health practitioners can exploit face-to-face social network interactions in order to maximize uptake of neonatal and infant health interventions. The villages will be randomly assigned to 16 cells of 11 villages each in a 2 x 8 factorial design of different targeting algorithms.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of oral administration of probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG in middle ear and adenoid tonsil.
The purpose of this study is to comparatively assess the effectiveness of a tailored educational intervention to improve health literacy levels regarding upper respiratory infections (URIs) and to decrease pediatric emergency department (PED) visits, among Latino households in Early Head Start.
The main purpose of the study is to find out if probiotics (healthy bacteria found in yogurt) can improve the health-related quality of life (HRQL) during upper respiratory infections (like the common cold) in college students living in residence hall on-campus at Framingham State University (Framingham, MA) who are randomized to receive a probiotic or placebo candy daily for 12 weeks. HRQL is a subjective measure, defined as the aspects of quality of life (i.e., one's satisfaction with their life) that related specifically to a person's health (for example, ability to carry out normal daily activities). The investigators hypothesize that HRQL during URIs will be significantly higher in the probiotic groups compared to the placebo group. The proposed study will also seek to address the following secondary objectives: missed school and work days due to a upper respiratory infection.
The excessive use of outpatient antibiotics in the pediatric population has contributed to the rapid development of resistance in many strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Research has shown that community-based interventions may have a modest impact on reducing the injudicious use of antibiotics in children. However, since the actual prescribing of antibiotics is done by physicians and research has shown that physician-parent communication patterns during pediatric visits for acute respiratory tract infections (ARTI) strongly influence antibiotic prescription rate, it is crucial to develop effective interventions aimed specifically at them. The overall goal of this study is to improve physician-parent communication patterns during visits for pediatric ARTI and, ultimately, to decrease rates of antibiotic prescribing for these illnesses in children.