Are these high-risk patients just very sick patients whose hospitalisations are largely not preventable/avoidable, 17 or has the care delivery system failed in some important dimensions that can be corrected with improved care coordination and management?
Length of hospitalisation differed between patients whose treatment was successful and patients whose treatment failed (Table 2).
Parents with serious illness that precluded NICU visitation (eg, severe chronic conditions), families who are absent in NICU during the hospitalisation period and parents whose infants are discharged or transferred to another hospital will be excluded.
Overseas research indicates that many children whose injuries are severe enough to warrant hospitalisation experience long-term impairments in physical and cognitive function, behavioural difficulties, and psychological distress [ 3- 9].
Thrane [ 38] found a higher risk of hospitalisation for infectious diseases in children whose mothers had only basic schooling.
Hospitalisation rates were highest in those patients whose ADE was rated as severe (31.6%, 95% CI 22.3– to 1.0).
There was no significant difference in hospital admission rates for respiratory or non-respiratory causes with fewer reported hospitalisations as a result of accidental injury in those whose mothers had received betamethasone.
UGIC cases comprise all children whose reason for admission included haematemesis/melena and children who had received an endoscopy during hospitalisation and were discharged with a diagnosis of gastroduodenal lesion.
Carer factors: Children whose primary carer was a current smoker in 1993 were at 3.02 times the risk for hospitalisation with DSH than children whose primary carer was a non-smoker.
Whose crime and whose punishment?
