Table 1. Patient characteristics pre- and post-propensity score matching.
| UNMATCHED DATA | MATCHED DATA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Fluids | Fluids | p-value | No Fluids | Fluids | p-value | |
| (n = 1561) | (n = 1526) | (n = 1180) | (n = 1180) | |||
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||
| Age group, n (%) | ||||||
| Infant | 332 (21.3%) | 313 (20.5%) | 0.416 | 271 (23.0%) | 294 (24.9%) | 0.388 |
| 1–5 yrs | 939 (60.2%) | 901 (59.0%) | 668 (56.6%) | 666 (56.4%) | ||
| 5–12 yrs | 290 (18.6%) | 312 (20.4%) | 241 (20.4%) | 220 (18.6%) | ||
| Female | 692 (44.3%) | 665 (43.6%) | 0.674 | 508 (43.1%) | 510 (43.2%) | 0.934 |
| HIV | 30 (1.9%) | 22 (1.4%) | 0.300 | 29 (2.5%) | 18 (1.5%) | 0.105 |
| Malaria | 381 (24.4%) | 305 (20.0%) | 0.003 | 309 (26.2%) | 235 (19.9%) | <0.001 |
| Vomiting and/or diarrhea | 314 (20.1%) | 509 (33.4%) | <0.001 | 311 (26.4%) | 299 (25.3%) | 0.573 |
| Heart Rate | ||||||
| Severe Tachycardia | 477 (30.6%) | 667 (43.7%) | <0.001 | 438 (37.1%) | 468 (39.7%) | 0.204 |
| Missing | 15 (1.0%) | 7 (0.5%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | ||
| Oxygen saturation | ||||||
| Hypoxia | 376 (24.1%) | 345 (22.6%) | 0.294 | 292 (24.7%) | 262 (22.2%) | 0.198 |
| Missing | 46 (2.9%) | 35 (2.3%) | 33 (2.8%) | 26 (2.2%) | ||
| Respiratory rate | ||||||
| Tachypnea | 312 (20.0%) | 341 (22.3%) | 0.255 | 260 (22.0%) | 244 (20.7%) | 0.722 |
| Missing | 47 (3.0%) | 41 (2.7%) | 31 (2.6%) | 31 (2.6%) | ||
| Hypothermia (instead of fever) | ||||||
| Yes | 646 (41.4%) | 460 (30.1%) | <0.001 | 393 (33.3%) | 419 (35.5%) | 0.260 |
| Clinical impression | ||||||
| "Not sick" | 512 (32.8%) | 375 (24.6%) | <0.001 | 293 (24.8%) | 317 (26.9%) | 0.525 |
| "Sick" | 975 (62.5%) | 1068 (70.0%) | 825 (69.9%) | 804 (68.1%) | ||
| "Toxic" | 74 (4.7%) | 83 (5.4%) | 62 (5.3%) | 59 (5.0%) | ||
| Mortality | 66 (4.2%) | 57 (3.7%) | 0.484 | 48 (4.1%) | 48 (4.1%) | 1.000 |
All p-values calculated using chi-squared