Abstract | OBJECTIVE: A randomized controlled trial compared day care versus hospital care management of pneumonia. METHODS: Children 2 to 59 months of age with severe pneumonia received either day care, with antibiotic treatment, feeding, and supportive care from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, or hospital care, with similar 24-hour treatment. RESULTS: In 2006-2008, 360 children were assigned randomly to receive either day care or hospital care; 189 (53%) had hypoxemia, with a mean±SD oxygen saturation of 93±4%, which increased to 99±1% after oxygen therapy. The mean±SD durations of day care and hospital care were 7.1±2.3 and 6.5±2.8 days, respectively. Successful management was possible for 156 (87.7% [95% confidence interval [CI]: 80.9%-90.9%]) of 180 children in the day care group and 173 (96.1% [95% CI: 92.2%-98.1%]) of 180 children in the hospital care group (P=.001). Twenty-three children in the day care group (12.8% [95% CI: 8.7%-18.4%] and 4 children in the hospital care group (2.2% [95% CI: 0.9%-5.6%] required referral to hospitals (P<.001). During the follow-up period, 22 children in the day care group (14.1% [95% CI: 9.5%-20.4%]) and 11 children in the hospital care group (6.4% [95% CI: 3.6%-11%]) required readmission to hospitals (P=.01). The estimated costs per child treated successfully at the clinic and the hospital were US$114 and US$178, respectively. CONCLUSION:
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Authors | Hasan Ashraf, Rokhsana Mahmud, Nur H Alam, Selina A Jahan, Syed M Kamal, Fazlul Haque, Mohammed A Salam, Niklaus Gyr |
Journal | Pediatrics
(Pediatrics)
Vol. 126
Issue 4
Pg. e807-15
(Oct 2010)
ISSN: 1098-4275 [Electronic] United States |
PMID | 20855397
(Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article, Randomized Controlled Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Chemical References |
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Ceftriaxone
- Oxygen
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Topics |
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
(administration & dosage)
- Bangladesh
- Ceftriaxone
(administration & dosage)
- Child, Preschool
- Day Care, Medical
- Female
- Hospital Costs
- Hospitalization
- Humans
- Infant
- Male
- Oxygen
(blood)
- Pneumonia
(blood, complications, economics, therapy)
- Treatment Outcome
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