Table 1. Admissions aged 2–59 months at 9 Kenyan District Hospitals from March 2007 to March 2008 and characteristics of those with pneumonia diagnosis.
| H1 | H2 | H3 | H4 | H5 | H6 | H7 | H8 | H9 | Overall | |
| Number of admissions | 515 | 555 | 537 | 518 | 501 | 363 | 558 | 507 | 2547 | 6601 |
| Admissions with any pneumonia diagnosis, n*(%) | 211(41.0) | 378(68.1) | 241(44.9) | 285(55.0) | 111(22.2) | 195(53.7) | 244(43.7) | 264(52.1) | 1443(56.7) | 3372(51.1) |
| Pneumonia | 55(26.1) | 76(20.1) | 89(36.9) | 94(33.0) | 9(8.1) | 24(12.3) | 37(15.2) | 51(19.3) | 562(38.9) | 997(29.6) |
| Severe pneumonia | 111(52.6) | 192(50.8) | 107(44.4) | 145(50.9) | 12(10.8) | 91(46.7) | 84(34.4) | 154(58.3) | 612(42.4) | 1508(44.7) |
| Very severe pneumonia | 35(16.6) | 100(26.5) | 39(16.2) | 35(12.3) | - | 11(5.6) | 18(7.4) | 37(14.0) | 269(18.6) | 544(16.1) |
| No classification† | 10(4.7) | 10(2.6) | 6(2.5) | 11(3.9) | 90(81.1) | 69(35.4) | 105(43.0) | 22(8.3) | - | 323(9.6) |
| Median age in months (IQR) | 14(7–25 | 11(7–20) | 12(7–24) | 12(7–24) | 14.4(8–28) | 10(6–17) | 12(7–24) | 11(6–20) | 16(8.3–29) | 12(6–23) |
| Male | 103(48.8) | 213(56.4) | 127(52.7) | 138(48.4) | 57(51.4) | 95(48.7) | 108(44.6) | 138(52.3) | 814(56.4) | 1793(53.2) |
*
n represents denominator for the pneumonia classifications and child’s sex presented below.
†
represents a pneumonia diagnosis in which the clinician failed to classify severity as pneumonia, severe pneumonia or very severe pneumonia.
H9 is Kilifi District hospital where data is collected in a prospective on-going surveillance of all inpatients.