The rate of admissions on the individual days of the week did not show any significant differences (p = 0.252), although there was a difference between the admission rate of 58.6% on workdays and 52.8% at weekends (p = 0.019).
The issue of Afghanistan also reveals critical differences, despite the admission of Afghanistan as an S.C.O.
Similar to the differences of opinion surrounding the admission of a patient to the ICU, there can be a difference of opinion about whether to continue or withdraw life-sustaining treatment of a patient already in ICU, whether it be between family and hospital staff, between physicians and nurses, or between individual healthcare professionals.
If we excluded activity from the first three months of the trial, differences in the admission proportion would not have been significant under any of the models.
Differences of admission source or admission diagnosis between groups of survivors and nonsurvivors and those with and without hyperlactatemia were assessed using the Chi-square test.
Fourteen infants in the delayed cord clamping group were admitted to the neonatal unit, compared with six in the early cord clamping group (non-significant difference), but only five of the admissions in the delayed clamping group and four of those in the early clamping group could reasonably be attributed to the intervention (transient tachypnoea, hypoglycaemia, and need for phototherapy).
Our assumption is that the clinically significant difference of ultra short stay admissions between the pre and post measurement is at least 30% in all participating hospitals.
Length of stay in the hospital was also cross-checked by calculating the difference between date of admission for the current problem and date at which the patient died/lost/discharged and corrections were made where inconsistencies were found.
Sensitivity analysis showed no significant differences in predictors of admission with the conversion of missing vital signs to normal in multivariate analysis.
The difference in opinion of admission of patients with Child-Pugh C with sepsis requires further evaluation.
