A comparison between raw and predicted mortality in a paediatric intensive care unit in South Africa

Autor:	Daynia Elizabeth Ballot, Tanusha Ramdin, Debbie Ann White, Jeffrey Lipman
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Intensive care Pediatrics Health care rationing Mortality audit Medicine Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Science (General) Q1-390
Zdroj:	BMC Research Notes, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2018)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1756-0500
DOI:	10.1186/s13104-018-3946-9
Popis:	Abstract Objective Paediatric intensive care resources are limited in sub-Saharan Africa. The mortality rate in a combined Paediatric/Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Johannesburg, South Africa was almost double that in a dedicated paediatric intensive care unit in the same country. This study aimed to compare the raw mortality rate with that predicted with the Paediatric Index of Mortality (version 3), by doing a retrospective analysis of an existing database. Results A total of 530 patients admitted to the intensive care unit between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2017 were included. The raw mortality rate was 27.1% and the predicted mortality rate was 27.0% (p = 0.971). Cardiac arrest during ICU admission (p
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