Clinical Research Directory

Automatic Versus As-Needed Follow-up After Hospitalization for Children With Medical Complexity

Children with medical complexity often receive a recommendation to see an outpatient clinician soon after leaving the hospital. It is uncertain whether every child needs this routine visit or whether follow-up can be guided by the family's concerns and the child's recovery. AFTERCARE is a multicenter pilot randomized trial comparing these two follow-up recommendations for children hospitalized with an acute infection. Families will be assigned by chance to receive either a recommendation to arrange follow-up with their usual outpatient clinician within seven days or a recommendation to seek follow-up if the child is not improving as expected or new concerns arise. Families in both groups may seek medical care whenever needed. The study will assess recruitment, follow-up data collection, delivery of the recommendations and acceptability. Caregiver surveys and medical record review will also describe outpatient visits and hospital returns. This pilot will inform the design of a larger trial, and is not designed to establish that the strategies are equally safe or effective.

Alternative Prophylaxis in Female Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections

Urological pathogens are effected by rising antimicrobial resistance rates due to the frequent use of antimicrobials for treatment and prophylaxis. Intravesical instillation with hyaluronic acid (HA) and chondroitin sulphate (CS) obtained positive outcomes in the treatment of overactive bladder, radiation cystitis and interstitial cystitis by replenishment of the glycosaminoglycan layer of the bladder. This study is to investigate whether intravesical instillation with HA-CS in patients with recurrent urinary tract infections (rUTI) is superior to a placebo instillation in terms of reduction of rate of symptomatic urinary tract infections (UTIs) (based on clinical diagnosis) needing treatment with antimicrobials within 12 months after randomisation.