# Measuring the Metabolic Cost of Fever

> **NCT02939781** · — · TERMINATED · sponsor: **Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust** · enrollment: 12 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Child
- Critical Illness
- Fever

## Interventions

- **DEVICE:** Indirect calorimetry

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02939781
- **Lead sponsor:** Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** —
- **Study type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Status:** TERMINATED
- **Start date:** 2016-11
- **Primary completion:** 2017-11
- **Final completion:** 2018-11
- **Target enrollment:** 12 (ACTUAL)
- **Why stopped:** Unable to recruit to protocol
- **Last updated:** 2021-06-25


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02939781

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02939781, "Measuring the Metabolic Cost of Fever". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-02 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02939781. Licensed CC0.

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