Clinical Trial: Multimodal Stewardship Programme to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing for Children With Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

U.S., Oct. 27 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07893834) titled 'Multimodal Stewardship Programme to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing for Children With Lower Respiratory Tract Infections' on Oct. 09.

Brief Summary: Children with lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) are still often prescribed antibiotics in ways that depart from national guidelines. Acute viral bronchitis is treated with antibiotics although none are needed, and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is often treated with a second-choice antibiotic, most often a macrolide, instead of first-line amoxicillin. In the Terveystalo network in Finland, about one third of bronchitis visits and one fifth of CAP visits in 2014 to 2020 led to ...