KIDS-STEP_Betamethasone Therapy in Hospitalised Children With CAP

PHASE3CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

510

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

October 28, 2018

Primary Completion Date

March 26, 2024

Study Completion Date

March 26, 2024

Conditions
Community-acquired Pneumonia
Interventions
DRUG

Celestamine®

Children in KIDS-STEP will be receiving either oral betamethasone (Celestamine®) or oral placebo dosed once daily for two consecutive days. Celestamine® N 0.5 liquidum is a betamethasone solution and will be used in the active comparator arm. Study medication will be administered orally once a day on two consecutive days. A standard dose of 0.1-0.2 mg/kg will be used. All doses used in KIDS-STEP fall into the range of recommended doses according to the Summary of Medical Product Characteristics.

Trial Locations (13)

1011

Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois, Lausanne

1211

Geneva University Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Geneva

1752

Kantonsspital- Freiburger Spital (HFR), Villars-sur-Glâne

3010

Inselspital Bern, Bern

4056

University of Basel Children's Hospital (UKBB), Basel

5001

Kantonsspital Aarau, Klinik für Kinder u. Jugendliche, Aarau

6000

Luzerner Kantonsspital, Kinderspital, Lucerne

8032

University-Childrens Hospital Zürich, Zurich

9006

Ostschweizer Kinderspital, Sankt Gallen

Unknown

Universitätsklinikum der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Bochum

Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Klinik für Allgemeine Pädiatrie, Düsseldorf

Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Zentrum für Kinder und Jugendmedizin Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau

Universitätsklinikum Tübingen, Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Tübingen

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Swiss National Fund for Scientific Research

OTHER

collaborator

University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

OTHER

collaborator

SwissPedNet

UNKNOWN

lead

Julia Bielicki

OTHER

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