As well as receiving more one-on-one care, infants are more likely to be breast-fed, which lowers illness and hospitalization rates for infants and benefits women's health.
In a Your Money column, Tara Siegel Bernard wrote about the many benefits to families, babies, employers and society from paid maternal-leave policies: lower infant mortality rates, lower illness and hospitalization rates for infants who are more likely to be breast-fed, benefits to women's health, and economic gains from reducing health-care costs and women's overall time out of the work force.
Trauma patients were younger, and had a higher male predominance, and less comorbidities and lower illness severity compared to the general AHRF patient population.
Lower illness severity scores [ 39], younger age [ 35], male sex [ 4] and systemic inflammation [ 40] are common features.
Lower illness rates may reflect the increased social integration and support of stable, low turnover, populations (Sampson, 1988).
PS and Charlson Comorbidity Index were relevant to the outcome only in patients with lower illness severity (SAPS3 score ≤61, left branch of the tree).
Unsurprisingly, extremely ill children had much longer average hospital stay and higher average hospital charges, when compared with children with lower illness severity.
This was associated with a lower illness incidence in children aged ≥ two years (RR 0.34, 95% CI 0.17 to 0.65), reflecting a two-third reduction in diarrhoeal episodes.
Younger age and lower illness severity scores have previously been identified as risk factors for ARC [ 28, 29], which is further demonstrated by our study data.
The risk scenario given to the respondents (high vs. lower illness and death rates) did not significantly affect the results (Table 4).
