Table 2 Patient characteristics by day of admission
Weekday | Weekend | Overall | P value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mortality | n(%)* | 0.298 | |||
Alive | 1689 (89) | 870 (87) | 2559 (88) | ||
Died | 216 (11) | 126 (13) | 342 (12) | ||
Gender | |||||
Female | 859 (45) | 448 (45) | 1307 (45) | 0.954 | |
Male | 1046 (55) | 548 (55) | 1594 (55) | ||
Age | |||||
Median (IQR) | 8 (5–13) | 8 (5–13) | 8 (5–13) | 0.966 | |
Age group | |||||
2 - 6 months | 728 (38) | 387 (39) | 1115 (38) | 0.425 | |
7 - 11 months | 601 (32) | 295 (30) | 896 (31) | ||
12 - 18 months | 319 (17) | 188 (19) | 507 (18) | ||
19 - 24 months | 124 (6) | 57 (6) | 181 (6) | ||
25 - 36 months | 74 (4) | 45 (4) | 119 (4) | ||
37 - 59 months | 59 (3) | 24 (2) | 83 (3) | ||
Diagnosis | |||||
Dehydration | 700 (37) | 376 (38) | 1076 (37) | 0.703 | |
Pneumonia | 947 (50) | 479 (48) | 1426 (49) | ||
Both Dehydration and Pneumonia | 258 (13) | 141 (14) | 399 (14) | ||
Hospital length of stay (LOS) days | |||||
Median (IQR) | 3 (2 – 6) | 3 (2 – 5) | 3 (2 – 6) | 0.845 | |
Co-morbidities | |||||
No co-morbidity | 982 (52) | 530 (53) | 1512 (52) | 0.394 | |
With co-morbidity | 923 (48) | 466 (47) | 1389 (48) | ||
Calendar period | |||||
2005 | 372 (20) | 372 (20) | 539 (19) | 0.106 | |
2006 | 367 (19) | 367 (19) | 593 (20) | ||
2007 | 369 (19) | 369 (19) | 555 (19) | ||
2008 | 422 (22) | 422 (22) | 630 (22) | ||
2009 | 375 (20) | 375 (20) | 584 (20) | ||
Intervention period | |||||
Pre-intervention | 743 (39) | 396 (40) | 1139 (39) | 0.668 | |
Implementation | 593 (31) | 294 (30) | 887 (31) | ||
Post-intervention | 569 (30) | 306 (31) | 875 (30) | ||
Disease severity | |||||
Severe | 754 (40) | 393 (39) | 1147 (40) | 0.949 | |
Non- severe | 1151 (60) | 603 (61) | 1754 (60) | ||
Time to death in hours | |||||
Median (IQR) n = 230 | 38 (13 – 86) | 28 (10 – 91) | 33 (13–87) | 0.122 | |