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InfectionsNCT05862688

A Cohort Study on Anti-microbial Stewardship in PICU

An observational study of Infections, run by Children's Hospital of Fudan University.

Not yet recruiting

Opening soon. The study is approved but enrolment has not started yet. Sites may already take enquiries.

Sites and contacts
Official record
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Trial summary

Appropriate antimicrobial therapy is essential to ensuring positive patient outcomes. Inappropriate or suboptimal utilization of antibiotics can lead to increased length of stay, multidrug-resistant infections, and mortality. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 1 month to 18 years
Conditions the study is for
Infections
What is being tested?
antimicrobial therapy
How many people
1,000 participants
Where
No sites listed yet
Study dates
1 Jan 2027to 31 Dec 2027
Phase
Observational
Are there results?
Not yet: the study is under way

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 1 month to 18 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult

Study population: ICU patient

Who may be able to join

  • Patients admitted to the ICU for more than 48 hour

Who cannot join

  • Patients admitted to ICU less than 48 hours

Trial locations and contacts

No sites are listed yet. Contact the study team or a site near you to ask about taking part.

Jing Liu, Doctor contact

15800523953

liujinggg@126.com

About this study

Appropriate antimicrobial therapy is essential to ensuring positive patient outcomes. Inappropriate or suboptimal utilization of antibiotics can lead to increased length of stay, multidrug-resistant infections, and mortality. Critically ill intensive care patients are at risk of antibiotic failure and secondary infections associated with incorrect antibiotic use. Initiating effective therapy for infections based upon patients' risk factors, collection of appropriate cultures, daily evaluation of clinical status, and laboratory data, including antibiotic time outs, and shortened duration of therapy are ways to improve patients outcomes. Antimicrobial stewardship teams can assist ICU providers in managing and implementing these tactics. ICUs would benefit from employing empiric guidelines for antibiotic use, collecting appropriate specimens and implementing molecular diagnostics, optimizing the dosing of antibiotics, and reducing the duration of total therapy.

Read the detailed description

Appropriate antimicrobial therapy is essential to ensuring positive patient outcomes. Inappropriate or suboptimal utilization of antibiotics can lead to increased length of stay, multidrug-resistant infections, and mortality. Critically ill intensive care patients are at risk of antibiotic failure and secondary infections associated with incorrect antibiotic use. Initiating effective therapy for infections based upon patients' risk factors, collection of appropriate cultures, daily evaluation of clinical status, and laboratory data, including antibiotic time outs, and shortened duration of therapy are ways to improve patients outcomes. Antimicrobial stewardship teams can assist ICU providers in managing and implementing these tactics. ICUs would benefit from employing empiric guidelines for antibiotic use, collecting appropriate specimens and implementing molecular diagnostics, optimizing the dosing of antibiotics, and reducing the duration of total therapy. This study conducted an antibiotic management cohort study in PICUs to discover the distribution of nosocomial infections in PICUs and to find controllable factors for the occurrence of nosocomial infections.

Conditions
Infections
Being tested
antimicrobial therapy
Medical subject headings
Infections

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • antimicrobial therapyOther

    antimicrobial therapy

Study groups in NCT05862688
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Infectionpatients with infection
Receives: Other: antimicrobial therapy
non-infectionpatients without infection

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. survival rate

    the survival rate of children in 21 days after ICU admission

    Measured: 21 days after ICU admission

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. the length of ICU stay time

    the length of ICU stay time

    Measured: 21 days after ICU admission

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted17 May 2023
  2. Study start1 Jan 2027 (estimated)
  3. Primary completion31 Dec 2027 (estimated)
  4. Study completion31 Dec 2027 (estimated)

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Observational
Observational model
Cohort
Time perspective
Prospective
Enrolment
1,000 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05862688
Sponsor's protocol ID
fdpicu-29
Status last verified
Oct 2026
First submitted
26 Feb 2023
Last updated
27 Oct 2026
Results posted
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

An observational study of Infections, run by Children's Hospital of Fudan University.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 1 inclusion and 1 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: opening soon, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Oct 2026. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

This study is still under way. Results are not available in the source record yet.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

Contact Jing Liu, Doctor (15800523953, liujinggg@126.com), or a site near the patient. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

survival rate (time frame: 21 days after ICU admission). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 27 Oct 2026.

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