Costs, Health Status and Outcomes of CAP (Community-Acquired Pneumonia)

Launched by UMC UTRECHT · Dec 18, 2008

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ClinConnect Summary

Within the study data on quality of life and various health and non-health resources and their costs is collected with the help of questionnaires administered at different points in time in different cohorts. Data collection is additional upon data collected in the main CAPITA trial, such as incidence data, mortality estimates, use of some health care resources, vaccine effectiveness and general background (socio-demographic) data.

In a first sub-study of CHO-CAP, the CAPITA participants are asked, via written information distributed shortly after vaccination, to fill in once-only a short ...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Only participants of the CAPITA trial. Therefore the inclusion criteria as applied in CAPITA are the baseline for the current study. Additionally all participants had to be consent and had to fill in a baseline EQ-5D questionnaire
• • Additionally for CAP patients: Consent to be filling to participate as a CAP and the presence of CAP has to be confirmed by the independent adjudication committee of the main CAPITA trial
• • Additionally for controls: Consent to be filling to participate as control
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • The non-availability of a baseline EQ-5D score is an exclusion criterion for the prospectively followed cohorts (both CAP patients and controls)
• • In all stages of the study, patients have the right to withdraw their consent and stop their participation in this study.