Validation of Vital Signs and Symptoms for the Diagnosis of Serious Infections in Children in the Paediatric A&E.

Validation of Vital Signs and Symptoms for the Diagnosis of Serious Infections in Children in a High Prevalent Setting: the Paediatric A&E.

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01396798

Acronym

ERNIE3

Enrollment

1500

Registered

2011-07-19

Start date

2011-02-28

Completion date

2012-03-31

Last updated

2012-09-14

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Conditions

Community-Acquired Infections, Gastroenteritis, Meningitis, Respiratory Tract Infections, Sepsis, Urinary Tract Infections

Keywords

serious infections, meningitis

Brief summary

Validation of Vital Signs and Symptoms for the Diagnosis of Serious Infections in Acutely Ill Children in a High Prevalent Setting: The Paediatric Accidents & Emergencies through prospective observational data collection concerning specific items from the clinical and technical examination in diagnosing serious infections, such as meningitis, sepsis, pneumonia, pyelonephritis, bronchiolitis with hypoxia. Eventually we will attempt to validate a vital signs and symptoms rule derived from multiple low to high prevalent settings of acutely ill children.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

1 Months to 16 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Children aged 1 month to 16 years * Acute illness episode of maximum 5 days

Exclusion criteria

* recent trauma * neurological conditions * intoxication * psychiatric of behavioural disorders without a somatic cause * acute exacerbation of a chronic condition (asthma, known immunodeficiency, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, etc)

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
serious infections: meningitis, sepsis, pneumonia, pyelonephritis, osteomyelitis and cellulitis, gastroenteritis with sever dehydration, complicated urinary tract infection and complicated viral airway infection with hypoxia.	within 24 hours after assessment

Countries

Belgium

Outcome results