Surveillance Study of Acute Gastroenteritis in Hospitalized Children

Surveillance Study of Acute Gastroenteritis Etiologies in Hospitalized Children

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02245139

Acronym

SAGE

Enrollment

198

Registered

2014-09-19

Start date

2014-07-01

Completion date

2014-12-15

Last updated

2017-04-27

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Conditions

Acute Gastroenteritis, Dehydration, Diarrhea

Keywords

diarrhea, vomiting, fever, abdominal pain, oliguria

Brief summary

Acute gastroenteritis is a common cause of hospital admission and health office visits and have a huge burden on the economy of developing countries. The investigators proposed this observational prospective study during summer period in a community and tertiary care hospital in a rural area of Lebanon to investigate the etiologies and age distribution of admitted cases to general pediatric floor from the age of 1 month up to the age of 14 years.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_ONLY

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

1 Months to 13 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* acute gastroenteritis

Exclusion criteria

* immunodeficiency * malnutrition

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
etiologies	1 year	to determine the microbial causes of acute gastroenteritis

Outcome results