Despite elaborate clinical health assessments on admission, including differential hematology, in 2010, 17% of 108 admitted pups did not survive the first 20 days.
For instance, it is worth noting that if patients admitted over the weekend have less comprehensive clinical coding (perhaps because case-notes are less complete for weekend admissions), then such differential measurement error could potentially undermine the case-mix adjustment in our model, because the "sickness" of weekend admissions may have been systematically underestimated.
However, it is possible that population level differences between the two countries may have had a role in the patient condition prior to admission and led to differential deterioration rate between the two groups.
Early bronchoalveolar lavage (during the first 48 hours from admission) could help in differential diagnosis between: exacerbation of rheumatic disease, infection, drug-induced respiratory failure, and alveolar hemorrhage.
We believe, based on results from our present study with a NPV of 0.95 for the NeBoP score, that the test will be helpful for the paediatrician to correctly refrain from antibiotic treatment on admission and consider other differential diagnoses while waiting for anti- Borrelia antibody results.
A trend of increasing admission rates in lower socioeconomic status groups was also observed, but there was no evidence of a differential rate of admissions between men and women when adjusted for background risk.
This also reflects the workload for this group: residents generally feel challenged to think through new admissions, create and narrow a differential diagnosis, and direct initial management.
Using propensity score methods to control for selection, we do not find evidence of differential outcomes by admission to SU or other wards.
Male adults were more likely to be admitted with ACSCs admissions, while no significant sex differentials were observed for paediatric groups.
Case notes of children admitted to this paediatric secondary and tertiary referral hospital from January 1st to April 30th 2000 were reviewed to see if a CNS infection or meningococcal septicamia were included in their differential diagnosis at admission.
