Offering general pediatric care during the hard times of the 2014 Ebola outbreak: looking back at how many came and how well they fared at a Médecins Sans Frontières referral hospital in rural Sierra Leone

Table 4 Exit outcomes at the Referral hospital, Bo, Sierra Leone

	2013 n (%)	2014 n (%)	Relative Risk (95% CI¹)	P-value²
Total	3436	1787
Recovered and discharged	2770 (81)	1560 (87)	1.1 [1.1-1.1]	<0.001
Unfavorable outcomes
Total	329 (10)	199 (11)	1.2 [1.0-1.4]	0.08
Died	245	174
Abandoned³	84	25
Referred out⁴	337 (10)	28 (2)	0.2 [0.1-0.2]	<0.001

¹95% CI = 95% Confidence Interval
²χ2 test
³Abandoned: discharged without medical consent, patient leaves the hospital against medical advice
⁴refered to other health facility for further care, with final outcome unknown

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