Table 1 Demographic and illness characteristics of children aged less than 2 years admitted to hospital with an infectious disease from 1st January 2005 to 31st December 2011
From: Hospital readmissions with acute infectious diseases in New Zealand children < 2 years of age
Children admitted to hospital with an infectious disease before age 2 years | |
|---|---|
Variable | n = 46,540 |
Demographic characteristics | |
Age in months, median (IQR) | 7.2 (2.4–13.2) |
Age, n (%) | |
Less than 6-months-old | 19,028 (41) |
6- to 23-months-old | 27,512 (59) |
Gender, n (%) | |
Male | 26,038 (56) |
Female | 20,502 (44) |
Ethnicitya, n (%) | |
Pacific | 7902 (17) |
Māori | 15,876 (34) |
Asian | 2499 (5) |
Other | 740 (2) |
European | 19,411 (42) |
Household deprivationb, n (%) | |
Dep 9 & 10 (most deprived) | 18,575 (40) |
Dep 7 & 8 | 10,996 (24) |
Dep 5 & 6 | 7226 (16) |
Dep 3 & 4 | 5171 (11) |
Dep 1 & 2 (least deprived) | 4435 (10) |
Season of admissionc, n (%) | |
Autumn | 8586 (18) |
Winter | 17,285 (37) |
Spring | 13,162 (28) |
Summer | 7507 (16) |
Illness characteristics | |
Length of stay in days, median (25th, 75th centile) | 3 (2, 4) |
Diagnostic group of first admission, n (%) | |
Acute respiratory infection (ARI) | 25,256 (54) |
Enteric infection | 6909 (15) |
Skin and soft tissue infection (SSTI) | 3210 (7) |
Urinary tract infection (UTI) | 1826 (4) |
Other | 9339 (20) |
Presence of complex chronic conditions, n (%) | |
All complex chronic conditions | 894 (2) |
Neuromuscular | 45 (0.1) |
Cardiovascular | 403 (0.9) |
Respiratory | 116 (0.2) |
Renal | 43 (0.1) |
Gastrointestinal | 78 (0.2) |
Haematologic and immunologic | 38 (0.1) |
Metabolic | 3 (0.01) |
Other congenital or genetic defect | 133 (0.3) |
Malignancy | 35 (0.1) |