The support will include identifying children who are in need, providing safe places for children to stay, data management to help trace children to their families, and services such as counselling and legal advice.
During ICU stay, data were collected on type of antifungal treatment (empirical, preemptive, or curative), suspected (probable and possible categories of the EORTC definitions) or proven invasive Candida infection, successive antifungal treatments prescribed, duration of each antifungal treatment, total duration of antifungal therapy, and appropriateness of the initial antifungal treatment.
The SMR and hospital stay data are generated from the routine administrative data of the hospital.
aAnalysis for ICU days was conducted on patients (n = 95) from hospitals that collect ICU stay data.
As both cost and hospital stay data generally do not follow a Normal distribution and are often right-skewed, these variables were transformed to their natural logs.
Finally, no correlations were found between C4d density and either cause of death or cardiac downtime prior to or during terminal hospital stay (data not shown).
Parasitaemia and markers of haemolysis (lactate dehydrogenase, aspartate aminotransferase and bilirubin) were significantly higher in patients with acute renal failure than in those with other complications, both on admission and during hospital stay (data not shown).
These effects were maintained when controlling for a proxy of severity of ACS (i.e. length of hospital stay – data not shown), showing the robust nature of these findings, and highlighting the importance of treating depression in this population.
The data from this study, including the associated hospital and intensive care unit stay data and associated costs for both mothers and infants after diagnosis of sepsis, could contribute to a cost-effectiveness study of antenatal screening for GBS.
Disease outcomes were obtained using ICD-9 codes (International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision) from death certificates and hospital record diagnostic codes in NHEFS mortality and health care facility stay data bases, respectively.
Specifically, median age, sex and joint involvement were comparable, as well as ESR, CRP and synovial fluid leukocyte count, duration of antibiotic therapy and hospital stay (data not shown).
