A study to observe how often antibiotics are prescribed in children hospitalized for pneumonia and how doctors decide if a child needs antibiotics or not. Parent satisfaction will also be recorded.
Hospital admission at the pediatric department of the Filderklinik or at the pediatric department of the Herdecke Community Hospital
Admission diagnosis pneumonia or pneumonia diagnosis within 48 hours of admission
Written informed consent by care giver
All inclusion criteria have to be fulfilled
Insufficient knowledge of German to understand the written patient information and questionnaire
Children (aged 3 months to 18 years) who are hospitalized for pneumonia.
Cohort
Prospective
Antibiotic treatment
Other interventionAntibiotic treatment
No antibiotic treatment
Other interventionNo antibiotic treatment
Antibiotic treatment rates in hospitalized children with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia and fever
Rates of treatment with and without antibiotics during hospitalization
Number of medical complications
Medical complications defined as a) admission to intensive care, mechanical ventilation, transfer to tertiary car center OR b) pleural effusion or empyema, pneumothorax, lung abscess, bronchopleural fistula, necrotizing pneumonia, acute respiratory failure, infectious complication (meningitis, septic shock).
Factors in physician decision making on antibiotic prescription
Physician questionnaire (closed-ended questions)
Parental satisfaction
Parental satisfaction questionnaire (closed-ended questions)
Hospitalization duration
Number of hospitalization days
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ARCIM Institute Academic Research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine
Lead sponsor
Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Herdecke, Germany
Collaborator
