Timeline of IMCI+
Q2 2024
Project kick-off meeting
Q4 2024
RCT starts
Q3 2025
Finalise PLUS Intervention Package
Q3 2026
RCT ends and IR data collection begins
Q2 2027
Development of Lung US AI models
Q3 2027
IR data collection ends
Q1 2028
Project ends and results disseminated
The number of countries the IMCI consortium members come from
5
children with IMCI pneumonia will be enrolled in the RCT
3'500
lung ultrasounds will be done over the study period
> 10'000
What is the IMCI-Plus project?
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IMCI-Plus is an interdisciplinary, Pan-African-European Union research initiative which aims to improve the management of childhood pneumonia by pioneering the use of point-of-care lung ultrasound in everyday clinical practice, and policy.
02
‘IMCI’ is the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness which is a systematic set of guidelines used for the prevention and treatment of illness in children and includes specific guidelines for the management of childhood pneumonia.
03
‘IMCI-Plus’ refers to the integration of lung ultrasound, done at the patient’s bedside, into these childhood pneumonia management guidelines
IMCI-PLUS (GA N° 101145822) is funded by the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking and its members, with contributions from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation.