Efficacy Studies of Corticosteroid Therapy in Community-Acquired Pneumonia

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of addition of corticosteroid therapy to antibiotics in patient admitted with Community-acquired pneumonia.

The hypothesis is: Prednisolone in combination with antibiotic treatments is effective in improving clinical outcome in patients hospitalized with CAP.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Medical Center Alkmaar
• Treatments: Prednisone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Clinical symptoms of community-acquired pneumonia:

• Fever, cough, sputum, pleural pain, dyspnoea

• Radiological symptoms of pneumoniä

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any conditions wich requires corticosteroid therapy.

• Pregnancy of lactation

• Malignancy

• Immune-compromised patients (eg chemotherapy or AIDS)

• Pre-treatment with macrolide for >24 hours