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Table 3:

Clinical outcomes of postoperative paediatric cardiac surgery patients admitted to the PCCU for the preintervention and intervention (TPSS) periods

Clinical outcomes	Preintervention period (2007)	Intervention period (2008)	P-value
Length on mechanical ventilation (h)^a	22 (12, 80)	18 (7, 50)	<0.001^c
Length of PCCU stay (days)^a	3 (1, 7)	3 (2, 6)	0.85^c
Length of hospital stay (days)^a	7 (4, 12)	7 (5, 15)	0.32^c
Death^b	24 (6.3%)	24 (7.4%)	0.78^d

PCCU: paediatric cardiac critical care unit; TPSS: templates of patient-specific summaries.

^aValues as median (IQR).

^bValues as number (%).

^cP-value based on Wilcoxon rank-sum test.

^dP-value based on χ² test.