U07.1 J21.0 J09
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Interviews with participants during their visit as a patient or employment at one of the study sites (oncology outpatient facility, dialysis unit, emergency room, or pediatric emergency care)
Sponsors
Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg Sektion Infektions- und Tropenmedizin
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: (1) Patients (or, in the pediatric emergency care unit, the legal guardian), healthcare workers and decision makers aged 18 years or older (2) Visiting or working at one of the study settings (oncology ambulatory setting, dialysis unit, emergency room or paediatric emergency care) at the time of the study (3) Ability to give informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: (1) Patients (or, in the pediatric emergency care unit, the legal guardian), healthcare workers and decision makers aged under 18 years (2) Not able to give informed consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1) To assess acceptability and perceived feasibility of POC PCR among stakeholders for diagnostics of respiratory infections in an ambulatory oncology unit, an ambulatory dialysis unit, an emergency department and a pediatric emergency care unit by identifying potential users, needed skills and training as well as assessing readiness to change and requirements for scale up. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1) To perform a hypothetical trial of POC PCR testing for respiratory infections to model potential impact at scale based on results obtained from the primary endpoints and potential benefits of early treatment in a German dialysis unit. | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactClaudia Denkinger
Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg Sektion Infektions- und Tropenmedizin
Outcome results
None listed