Study on the cause of body temperature variatio
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: R509- Fever, unspecified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/06/043246
- Lead Sponsor
- Indian Academy of Pediatrics Mumbai IAPM
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Healthy children between age of 6 months
and 18 years presenting with acute onset of
fever of short duration without exposure to
antibiotics in last two weeks
Exclusion Criteria
Children with following diseases
acute severe acute malnutrition, known
congenital defects or diseases, serious
situations (Behavior change, poor urine
output, respiratory distress, hemodynamic
instability, purpuric rash or gangrenous skin,
meningeal signs).
Children who have received antibiotics in the
first 48 hrs since the onset of fever.
Post vaccination fever
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To evaluate a clinical score to suspect or rule out acute bacterial infection during first 3-4 days of fever by analysis of detailed historyTimepoint: 14 days
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To evaluate the proportion of children in whom use of antibiotics is not justified. <br/ ><br>To evaluate the utility of the tool to reduce irrational use of antibiotics among childrenTimepoint: 14 days