Clinical Indicators of Radiographic Findings in Patients With Suspected Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Completed

Conditions studied: Pneumonia

In brief

This is a study involving the emergency department and outpatient clinics of the David Grant United States Air Force (USAF) Medical Center, a tertiary care facility. Patients 18 years of age or older with acute respiratory symptoms and positive or equivocal chest radiographs from October 1, 2004 through May 31, 2005 will be included as positive cases. Controls will be randomly selected from a review of negative chest radiograph reports with a clinical history of an acute respiratory illness over the same time period. Once patients are appropriately identified as control or cases, outpatient charts will be reviewed to gather data on six clinical indicators. Sensitivities and specificities will be calculated for each clinical indicator, to determine which patients require chest radiographs in the setting of suspected community acquired pneumonia (CAP)

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00118651

Run by

David Grant U.S. Air Force Medical Center

People needed

350

Starts

2004-10-01

Expected to finish

2005-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-04-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 18 years of age or older
• acute respiratory symptoms
• positive chest radiographs
• patients from outpatient clinics and the emergency department

You may not qualify if…

• under the age of 18
• suspected hospital-acquired pneumonia (positive radiographs within 10 days of hospital discharge)
• suspected aspiration pneumonia

Where it is running

• David Grant USAF Medical Center — Travis Air Force Base, California, United States

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