Table 3.
Adjusted likelihood ratios and simplified prognostic scores for death in children admitted to hospital in Kenya
| Indicators
|
Adjusted likelihood ratios
|
Simplified scores
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator present
|
Indicator absent
|
Indicator present
|
Indicator absent
|
||
| Immediate deaths | |||||
| Severe anaemia (haemoglobin <50 g/l) | 1.76 | 0.79 | +1 | +0 | |
| Jaundice | 1.89 | 0.97 | +1 | +0 | |
| Subcostal indrawing | 2.51 | 0.57 | +1 | −1 | |
| Deep breathing | 2.08 | 0.77 | +1 | +0 | |
| Prostrated with seizures | 2.03 | 0.99 | +1 | +0 | |
| Prostrated without seizures | 14.1 | 0.80 | +3 | +0 | |
| Impaired consciousness with seizures | 9.27 | 0.70 | +2 | +0 | |
| Impaired consciousness without seizures | 32.2 | 0.72 | +3 | +0 | |
| Axillary temperature <36 °C | 1.75 | 0.96 | +1 | +0 | |
| Axillary temperature >39 °C | 0.59 | 1.17 | −1 | +0 | |
| Constant | +2 | ||||
| Early deaths | |||||
| Jaundice | 1.99 | 0.98 | +1 | +0 | |
| Subcostal indrawing | 2.18 | 0.71 | +1 | +0 | |
| Prostrated with seizures | 4.70 | 0.94 | +2 | +0 | |
| Prostrated without seizures | 5.11 | 0.93 | +2 | +0 | |
| Impaired consciousness with seizures | 6.97 | 0.78 | +2 | +0 | |
| Impaired consciousness without seizures | 21.2 | 0.84 | +3 | +0 | |
| Wasting | 1.58 | 0.84 | +1 | +0 | |
| Kwashiorkor | 2.55 | 0.83 | +1 | +0 | |
| Constant | +0 | ||||
| Late deaths | |||||
| History >7 days | 1.88 | 0.78 | +1 | +0 | |
| Prostrated with seizures | 0.54 | 1.01 | −1 | +0 | |
| Prostrated without seizures | 1.53 | 0.99 | +0 | +0 | |
| Impaired consciousness with seizures | 2.24 | 1.03 | +1 | +0 | |
| Impaired consciousness without seizures | 3.16 | 0.98 | +1 | +0 | |
| Axillary temperature <36 °C | 2.30 | 0.94 | +1 | +0 | |
| Axillary temperature >39 °C | 0.57 | 1.15 | −1 | +0 | |
| Wasting | 2.05 | 0.63 | +1 | +0 | |
| Kwashiorkor | 2.09 | 0.74 | +1 | +0 | |
| Constant | +2 | ||||