Table 3.
Mortality associated with PELOD score on day 1 and change in score from day 1 to day 2
| Change in score from day 1 to day 2 | PELOD score on day 1 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low (< 10 points) |
Medium (10–19 points) |
High (≥ 20 points) |
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| No. of deaths, n/N | Mortality, % (95% CI) | No. of deaths, n/N | Mortality, % (95% CI) | No. of deaths, n/N | Mortality, % (95% CI) | |
| Baseline (day 1) | 10/887 | 1.1* (0.5–2.1) | 31/660 | 4.7 (3.2–6.6) | 74/259 | 28.6 (23.2–34.5) |
| Increase | 6/167 | 3.6 (1.3–7.7) | 7/53 | 13.2 (5.5–25.3) | 19/38 | 50.0 (33.4–66.6) |
| No change | 2/336 | 0.6 (0.1–2.1) | 12/219 | 5.5 (2.7–9.4) | 11/51 | 21.6 (11.3–35.3) |
| Decrease | 1/122 | 0.8 (0.0–4.5) | 8/245 | 3.3 (1.4–6.3) | 16/126 | 12.7 (7.4–19.8) |
Note: CI = confidence interval, PELOD score = Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction score.
*
For the 10 patients with a low PELOD score on day 1 who died, the underlying disease on admission was chronic cardiac disease (n = 7), chronic respiratory disease (n = 1), immunodeficiency (n = 1) and acute hepatic failure (n = 1).