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NCT Number: NCT01068990

Detection and Characterization of Lower Respiratory Infections in Critically Ill Patients

This study is a prospective observation study for lower respiratory tract infections in medical intensive care unit. Microbiologic and clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with severe pneumonia in medical intensive care unit will be monitored and analyzed.

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Key information

Conditions

Severe Pneumonia Infections Lung Diseases Pneumonia Respiratory Tract Diseases Respiratory Tract Infections

Age range

16 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Asan Medical Center

Seoul, 138-736, South Korea

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Sang-Ho Choi, MD

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

About this study

All patients admitting medical ICU will be monitored for pneumonia. Both community-acquired (including health-care associated pneumonia) and hospital-acquired pneumonia will be included. Collecting data will include patient demographic characteristics, clinical features, microbiological characteristics including molecular work, and outcome.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients admitting medical ICU with pneumonia
  • Medical ICU admitted patients who is developed new pneumonia

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients already treated more than 48 hours for pneumonia in transferring hospital and no causative organism is isolated

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Identification of etiology of pneumonia

    Time frame: 7 day from the time of pneumonia diagnosis

Secondary outcomes

  1. Pneumonia-related death

    Time frame: 1 month

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Sang-Ho Choi, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

+82-2-3010-3304

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Asan Medical Center

Other

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2010
Primary completion
2028
Study completion
2028
First posted
Feb 17, 2010
Registry last updated
Apr 18, 2024

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