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Table 1 Demographic, disease status and medication information among neonatal patients using digoxin on modeling dataset or validation dataset

From: Predicting the serum digoxin concentrations of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit through an artificial neural network

 

In modeling dataset

In validation dataset

p-value a

 Number of observations (male/female)

139 (81/58)

29 (13/16)

 

 Number of patients (male/female)

71 (40/31)

19 (7/12)

 

Demographic

 Gender (Male/Female)

81/58

13/16

0.185

 Postnatal age (week)

36.35 ± 8.08b, (34)c

38.41 ± 5.14b, (37)c

0.190

 Total body weight (kg)

1.73 ± 0.90b, (1.44)c

1.88 ± 0.72b, (1.76)c

0.407

Diseases

 CHF

54 (38.8)

11 (37.9)

0.926

 DCM

9 (6.5)

4 (13.8)

0.243

 PH

11 (7.9)

7 (24.1)

0.010

 VSD

16 (11.5)

9 (28.1)

0.072

Medications

 Ibuprofen

61 (38/23)

11 (3/8)

0.556

 Captopril

6 (6/0)

4 (4/0)

0.072

 Furosemide

24 (20/4)

5 (4/1)

0.997

Digoxin information

 Digoxin dose (mcg∙kg−1∙d−1)

5.90 ± 1.93, (5.19)

5.66 ± 1.81, (5.17)

0.542

 Drug concentrations (ng/mL)

1.25 ± 0.38, (1.2)

1.14 ± 0.24, (1.06)

0.138

  1. a. Nonparametric test by t-test for continuous data and Pearson’s Chi-Square test for categorized data; b. Values are expressed as mean ± SD; c. Median Value (IQR); CHF Congestive Heart Failure; DCM dilated cardiomyopathy; PH pulmonary hypertension; VSD Ventricular Septal Defect