CAP-IT Study

Results from the CAP-IT study on children with CAP have been published in JAMA. CAP-IT found that a shorter duration of treatment of 3 days of amoxicillin was as good as a longer duration of 7 days in terms of children not needing further antibiotic treatment within 4 weeks.

RECRUITMENT TARGET HAS BEEN REACHED! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

The 800th patient was recruited at 18:14 on 3rd April 2019 by… The Royal London – congratulations & well done! @BartsEDresearch @PERUKItweep 👏👏👏 @barts

Recruitment is now at 783 patients with the latest recruit from Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin! @PEMDUBLIN 🎆

Well done to City Hospitals Sunderland for recruiting the 775th patient to CAP-IT on Friday! Hope you enjoy the prize on it's way to you soon @PERUKItweep @mullen_niall @SunderlandRoyal 🥳👏

Really pleased to see recruitment picking up again! We ended February with 36 recruits but have already got 33 so far in March and there's still 2 weeks left of this month! Thank you for all your hard work 👏👍🥳 @PERUKItweep #capit #pneumonia