Treatment outcome of children with persistent Diarrhoea admitted to an Urban Hospital, Dhaka during 2012–2013

Autor: Mustafa Mahfuz, Mohammed Ashraful Alam, Shoeb Bin Islam, Nurun Nahar Naila, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Nur Haque Alam, Shafiqul Alam Sarker, Tahmeed Ahmed
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: BMC Pediatrics, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2431
DOI: 10.1186/s12887-017-0896-7
Popis: Abstract Background Despite availability of treatment guidelines, persistent diarrhoea (PD) has been a major contributor of diarrhoeal deaths in low and middle income countries. We evaluated the outcome of children under the age of 5 years who were treated for PD using management algorithm with locally available foods in a diarrhoeal disease hospital in Dhaka. Methods We extracted retrospective data from electronic database for all the under-five children admitted for PD in the Longer Stay Ward and Intensive Care Unit of the Dhaka hospital at icddr,b between 2012 and 2013. Descriptive analysis was done to explore available baseline socio-demographic, nutritional, and co-morbid statuses, pathogens from stool isolates, duration of treatment, use of antibiotics, duration of hospital stay and treatment success rates. We sought to investigate above mentioned descriptive features in addition to associated factors with time to recover from PD using survival analysis with Cox proportional hazard model. Results A total number of 426 children with a median age of 7.46 (inter-quartile range IQR; 5.39, 9.43) months were admitted for PD during the study period. Of these, 95% of children were recovered from PD and discharged from the hospital. The median duration of treatment response was 6 (IQR 4, 9) days. The case fatality rate was 1.17%. Multivariate analysis among the children of 6 months or less showed that the rate of recovery from PD was 57% lower in children with severe stunting compared to those without severe stunting (HR 0.43, 95% CI 0.22, 0.88, p
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