Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 11:50 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 11:50 AM
NCT ID:
NCT03513861
Brief Summary:
The purpose of this pilot study is to improve inpatient monitoring of severely-ill children admitted to the hospital in low resource settings at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Given the high ratio of patients to medical staff in these settings, the lack of reliable patient monitoring tools, and the high rate of early inpatient mortality, we will prospectively train parents as monitoring aids of their hospitalized children. Early recognition and intervention in critical illness is important to avoid (further) organ failure. Parents will be taught how to assess their child's mental status, work of breathing and capillary refill time which will inform a 3-point severity of illness scale. The severity of illness will be conveyed by the parents to the medical staff via color-coded flag system. The goal is to increase the healthcare provider patient reassessment rate according to patients' level of severity to assist in early recognition and treatment of patients' deterioration.
Study:
NCT03513861
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03513861