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Alexander W Hirsch1,2, Jonathan Hatoun1,3, Louis Vernacchio1,3
1Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Clinical pediatrics
|February 8, 2025
概括
在儿童肺炎中使用胸部X射线 (CXR) 在初级保健中并不常见. 执行CXR并没有显著改变肺炎儿童治疗失败的结果.
科学领域:
- 儿科医学 儿科医学
- 肺部病理学 肺部病理学
- 诊断成像 诊断成像 诊断成像
背景情况:
- 肺炎是一种常见的儿童疾病.
- 胸部X射线 (CXRs) 在初级保健中诊断和管理儿科肺炎的作用尚不清楚.
- 在不同的临床环境中,CXR利用的变化存在.
研究的目的:
- 评估在初级保健中诊断出肺炎的儿童中使用CXR的频率.
- 确定CXR使用是否与抗生素治疗和患者结局的差异有关.
- 评估CXR对儿科肺炎治疗失败的影响.
主要方法:
- 这是一项回顾性队列研究,涉及77家儿科诊所的29528名肺炎儿童.
- 使用多变量逻辑回归分析.
- 评估了CXR性能与临床再访,抗生素变化和复合治疗失败等结果之间的关联,并根据疾病严重程度进行调整.
主要成果:
- 只有10.1%的被诊断为肺炎的儿童接受了CXR.
- 观察到CXR利用中的实践水平显著变化 (范围为0%-75%).
- 在治疗失败的综合结果中,在具有CXR和没有CXR的儿童之间没有发现显著差异 (aOR1.06;95% CI [0.68,1.65]).
结论:
- 在小儿肺炎的初级保健管理中,CXR的利用不足.
- 肺炎儿童的CXR表现似乎没有影响治疗结果或失败率.
- 可能需要进一步的研究来澄清CXR在儿童肺炎的初级保健环境中的最佳作用.
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