Code
160F3412
Duration
01 June 2012 → 31 May 2016
Funding
Federal funding: various
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Education curriculum
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Medical and health sciences
- Diagnostics
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
- Diagnostics
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
- Microbiology
- Biomarker discovery and evaluation
- Drug discovery and development
- Medicinal products
- Pharmaceutics
- Pharmacognosy and phytochemistry
- Pharmacology
- Pharmacotherapy
- Toxicology and toxinology
- Other pharmaceutical sciences
- Diagnostics
- Immunology
- Laboratory medicine
Keywords
primary care
antibiotic prescribing behaviour
child
brief intervention
CRP-POC test
Acute infection
Diagnostic strategy
Project description
Aim: 1. Earlier recognition of seriously ill children by applying a decision tree, CRP-POC test and pulse oximetry. 2. Optimising antibiotic prescribing in children without serious infection by means of a CRP-POC test and/or a brief intervention.
Methodology: Diagnostic trial (decision tree, CRP-POC test, pulse oximetry) / Pragamtic Clustered Randomised Controlled Trial in 88 general practices and 6 pediatric units.