Clinical predictors of hospital admission in acute lower respiratory tract infection in 2 months to 2-year-old children.
Respirology
; 21(2): 350-6, 2016 Feb.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:
Acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) are a common cause of paediatric emergency visits in young children. We studied risk factors for hospitalization and developed a clinical score for predicting hospitalization among 2 months to 2-year-old children with ALRI.METHODS:
We conducted this prospective cohort study in the paediatric emergency department of a tertiary-care teaching hospital in India. Consecutive children, aged 2 months to 2 years with ALRI were enrolled from 15 December 2011 to 14 December 2012. A total of 26 a priori identified, putative risk factors were studied among enrolled children. We determined independent predictors of hospital admission (primary outcome) through multi-variable logistic regression analysis and assimilated them into a clinical risk score using regression coefficients.RESULTS:
A total of 240 children (130 admissions) with ALRI were enrolled. Eleven clinical risk factors, which displayed association with hospital admission on univariate analysis (P < 0.1), were entered into multi-variable logistic regression analysis. Five factors retained independent association and were incorporated in a predictive score for hospitalization tachypnoea (score of 5), chest retractions (score of 3), temperature > 37.8°C (score of 3), SpO2 < 92% at room air (score of 4), GCS < 15 (score of 6). Area under the receiver operator characteristic curve was 0.80 (95% CI 0.75-0.85, P < 0.001).CONCLUSION:
Five clinical risk factors-tachypnoea, chest retractions, fever > 37.8°C, SpO2 < 92% and GCS < 15-independently predicted hospital admission in infants with ALRI. A novel clinical score predicting hospital admission is presented.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecções Respiratórias
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Hospitalização
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Infant
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Male
País/Região como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Respirology
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Índia