ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Pediatr.
Sec. Pediatric Pulmonology
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fped.2025.1612618
Integrated Nursing and Medical Management Improves Outcomes in Pediatric Lobar Pneumonia: A Randomized Controlled Study
Provisionally accepted
- Hebei Children’s Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China
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Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of integrated nursing and medical management in children with lobar pneumonia, focusing on symptom relief, pulmonary function recovery, inflammation control, length of hospital stay, and caregiver satisfaction. Methods: Fifty pediatric patients with lobar pneumonia were randomly assigned to receive either routine nursing care or an integrated medical and nursing intervention. Key clinical outcomes—including the duration of symptoms, pulmonary function indices, inflammatory markers, length of hospital stay, treatment efficacy, caregiver satisfaction, and adverse events—were compared between groups. Results: Compared with the control group, the observation group demonstrated significantly shorter durations of fever, cough, and pulmonary rales, reduced antibiotic usage, and shorter hospital stays (all P < 0.001). Pulmonary function indices improved markedly (P = 0.001), and inflammatory markers showed more substantial reductions (P < 0.001). The overall treatment effectiveness in the observation group was 100%, with a caregiver satisfaction rate of 96.00% and a complication rate of 8.00%, all significantly better than those in the control group (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Integrated nursing and medical management significantly improves clinical outcomes for pediatric lobar pneumonia, accelerating recovery, enhancing pulmonary function, reducing complications, and increasing caregiver satisfaction. These findings support its broader application in clinical practice.
Keywords: Lobar pneumonia, Pediatrics, Integrated nursing and medical management, Pulmonary Function, Inflammatory markers, Satisfaction ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT06945991 (16th/April/2025)
Received: 16 Apr 2025; Accepted: 14 Jul 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hu, Guo, Liu, Lv and Liu. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Linlin Liu, Hebei Children’s Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China
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