Table 1.
Highest Level of Care Provided to Patients in the BronchStart Cohort, by Clinician Diagnosis and Virus Detected by Diagnostic Test
| ED (n = 11 074) |
Observation (n = 1186) |
Ward (n = 5027) |
HDU (n = 458) |
PICU (n = 154) |
Total (n = 17 899) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diagnosis | ||||||
| Bronchiolitis | 9180 (83) | 847 (71) | 3918 (78) | 396 (86) | 139 (90) | 14 480 |
| First wheeze | 985 (8.9) | 219 (18) | 661 (13) | 31 (6.8) | 2 (1.3) | 1898 |
| LRTI | 909 (8.2) | 120 (10) | 448 (8.9) | 31 (6.8) | 13 (8.4) | 1521 |
| Virus | ||||||
| RSV | 431 (3.9) | 189 (16) | 1951 (39) | 195 (43) | 85 (55) | 2851 |
| Other | 284 (2.6) | 135 (11) | 728 (14) | 90 (20) | 41 (27) | 1278 |
| Negativea | 768 (6.9) | 310 (26) | 1889 (38) | 153 (33) | 22 (14) | 3142 |
| Untested | 9591 (87) | 552 (47) | 459 (9.1) | 20 (4.4) | 6 (3.9) | 10 628 |
Data are No. (%).
Abbreviations: ED, emergency department; HDU, high-dependency unit; LRTI, lower respiratory tract infection; PICU, pediatric intensive care unit; RSV, respiratory syncytial virus.
aThis captures patients who were tested specifically for RSV and were negative for the virus.