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Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) remain a leading cause of hospitalisation and death among young children in Africa. Although viral infections account for a substantial proportion of LRTIs, antibiotics are frequently prescribed because distinguishing between viral and bacterial infections can be challenging. This contributes to unnecessary antibiotic exposure and the rising global public health challenge of antimicrobial resistance. This pragmatic, unblinded randomised controlled study will evaluate whether the combination of point-of-care (POC) C-reactive protein (CRP) testing and the PREPARE clinical severity score can safely reduce antibiotic use among children aged 2 to 24 months hospitalised with LRTI at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital (CHBAH), South Africa. Participants will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to either the intervention group, where antibiotic d
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