The epidemiology of S. pneumoniae related community-acquired pneumonia and respiratory syncytial virus in low respiratory tract infection in hospitalized older adults in Brazil

Fundação Faculdade Regional de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto0 个研究点开始时间: 2021年6月9日最近更新: 2023年5月29日

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•Aged 60 years old or older at enrollment; Hospitalized patient; Subject with clinical evidence of LRTI at hospital admission or up to 48 hours; Medical chart available for revision and data collection; Consent to take part in the study by signing the ICF. If the subject is not able to consent, formal consent should be collected by the legal responsible before study initiation

•Enrolled in this study within the past 30 days; An individual can present multiple episodes of pneumonia (as a new infection), so he/she can be included multiple times in this study. Those who are re-admitted within 30 days from the previous hospitalization will be excluded, as it would probably be a complication of the initial episode of pneumonia. A re-hospitalization after 30 days of previous hospital discharge will be considered as a new pneumonia infection; Older adult patients with hospital-acquired infection or ventilator-associated infection; Transferred from another hospital or inpatient healthcare facility after already being hospitalized for 48h or more (in this case, it will be considered hospital-acquired
•infection); Development of LRTI more than 48 hours after hospital admission (if developed
•48 hours after admission, it will be considered as hospital-acquired LRTI); Patients unable or unwilling to provide a urine samples within 48 hours of hospital admission (considering patients transferred from another hospital, this period include the time elapsed since the first hospital admission); Alternative illnesses that explain patient’s signs and symptoms, that excludes LRTI as primary diagnosis; Patient in use of antibiotics in the last 7 days before ICF signature; Patient who does not live in the same municipality as study site

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Fundação Faculdade Regional de Medicina de São José do Rio Preto