NCT05423847Completed
Triage UltraSound in Tb Endemic Regions
Point-of-care Ultrasound for the Diagnosis and Risk Stratification of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in TB Endemic Regions: a Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Feb 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
In Sub-Saharan Africa, lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) and tuberculosis (TB) jointly are the leading cause of overall mortality. There is a need to integrate sustainable triage and management strategies into standard care. The TrUST study investigates the utility of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for diagnosis and prognosis of LRTIs in TB endemic regions in the outpatient triage setting. Automated interpretation of POCUS by artificial intelligence (AI) may further standardize and improve its predictive utility as well as facilitate its implementation into usual practice.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 504 (actual)
- First submitted
- 20 Mar 2022
- Start date
- 14 Oct 2021
- Primary completion date
- 11 Aug 2023
- Lead sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
- Diseases
- Tuberculosis
- NCT number
- NCT05423847
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Participants enrolled: 504
- From 14 Oct 2021 to the primary completion date, 11 Aug 2023
- 3 sites in 3 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Cough/dyspnea from a definite non-infectious origin (cardiac, asthmatic...)
Other
- Inability to cooperate with ultrasound procedure
- Inability to sign informed consent (third witness procedure available for illiterate patients)
Who the study is looking for
- Age ≥18 years
- Suspicion of lower respiratory tract infection (defined as presence of cough with at least one of the following: fever, dyspnea/tachypnea, sputum production, chest pain, hemoptysis or cachexia)
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (3)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNHUPPC Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Cotonou | Benin | Unknown status |
| CHU point G Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Bamako | Mali | Unknown status |
| Wits Rural University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Acornhoek | South Africa | Unknown status |
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