Table 2 Comparison between PICU bed days for admissions ≥28 days (long-stay) and <28 days (standard stay)
From: Impact of prematurity on long-stay paediatric intensive care unit admissions in England 2008-2018
Study population | Terma | Preterma | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
All preterm | Extreme preterm (<28 weeks) | ||||||||
Standard stay | Long-stay | Standard stay | Long-stay | p (long- stay: preterm vs term) | Standard stay | Long-stay | p (long- stay: extreme preterm vs term) | ||
Bed-days, n (%) | 634,663 (100) | 244,060 (71.7) | 96,259 (28.3) | 131,698 (68.7) | 60,108 (31.3) | <0.001 | 30,449 (67.7) | 14,510 (32.3) | <0.001 |
Bed-days receiving endotracheal tube ventilation, n (%) | 337,555 (53.2) | 140,327 (57.5) | 43,880 (45.6) | 76,119 (57.8) | 23,612 (39.3) | <0.001 | 16,986 (55.8) | 4,354 (30.0) | <0.001 |
Bed-days receiving tracheostomy ventilation, n (%) | 62,761 (9.9) | 6,263 (2.6) | 27,270 (28.3) | 6,094 (4.6) | 19,407 (32.3) | <0.001 | 1,870 (6.1) | 6,071 (41.8) | <0.001 |
Bed-days receiving non-invasive ventilation, n (%) | 81,426 (12.8) | 24,886 (10.2) | 14,409 (15.0) | 16,188 (12.3) | 10,848 (18.1) | <0.001 | 4,155 (13.7) | 2,610 (18.0) | <0.001 |
Bed-days receiving ECMO, n (%) | 9,796 (1.4) | 4,239 (1.7) | 2,194 (2.3) | 1,159 (0.9) | 587 (1.0) | <0.001 | 211 (0.7) | 69 (0.5) | <0.001 |
Missing data for interventions | 14,630 (2.3) | 7,845 (3.2) | 243 (0.3) | 4,170 (3.2) | 167 (0.3) | - | 1,285 (4.2) | 52 (0.4) | - |