Admission Risk Score to Predict Inpatient Pediatric Mortality at Four Public Hospitals in Uganda

Admission Risk Score to Predict Inpatient Pediatric Mortality at Four Public Hospitals in Uganda

Mortality rates among hospitalized children in many government hospitals in sub-Saharan Africa are high. Pediatric emergency services in these hospitals are often sub-optimal. Timely recognition of critically ill children on arrival is key to improving service delivery. We present a simple risk score to predict inpatient mortality among hospitalized children. Between April 2010 and June 2011, t...

Risk Factors for Inpatient Hospital Admission in Pediatric Burn Patients

PURPOSE Our objective was to determine the risk factors for inpatient admission of pediatric burn patients. MATERIALS & METHODS This cross-sectional study uses data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient Database (HCUP KID) for the years of 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2012 to estimate the risk factors for inpatient admission for pediatric patients who sustained a burn inju...

Quality of Inpatient Pediatric Case Management for Four Leading Causes of Child Mortality at Six Government-Run Ugandan Hospitals

BACKGROUND A better understanding of case management practices is required to improve inpatient pediatric care in resource-limited settings. Here we utilize data from a unique health facility-based surveillance system at six Ugandan hospitals to evaluate the quality of pediatric case management and the factors associated with appropriate care. METHODS All children up to the age of 14 years ad...

Clinical decision-making about inpatient violence risk at admission to a public-sector acute psychiatric hospital.

This is an examination of the extent to which patients who are violent in the hospital can be distinguished from nonviolent patients, based on information that is readily available at the time of admission to a state acute psychiatric hospital. The charts of 235 inpatients were examined retrospectively, by selecting 103 patients who had engaged in inpatient violence and comparing them with 132 ...

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