Clinical Trial: Supportive Treatment and Antibiotics for Mild Pediatric Pneumonia
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Pneumonia
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Supportive Treatment and Antibiotics for Mild Pediatric Pneumonia
Brief Summary:
National guidelines make two recommendations for treatment of young children with mild pneumonia - one to avoid routine antibiotics and another to use narrow-spectrum antibiotics.No studies have compared the effectiveness of these two approaches.This pilot study will evaluate study processes and feasibility of a future clinical trial that proposes to test whether low-risk children managed as outpatients with mild community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) treated with supportive treatment without antibiotics will have a…
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