Table 2B.

Severity of disease in patients admitted with non-cholera to icddr,b hospital during the two periods

All Non Cholera patients
	1997–2000 N = 7182 (%)	2005–2008 N = 6923 (%)	p value
Severe Dehydration	554 (8)	1347 (20)	<0.001
IV fluids required	1047 (15)	1728 (26)	<0.001
>6 stools/day	6315 (89)	6287 (92)	<0.001
>10 vomit/day	415 (6)	443 (6)	0.344
¥Length of hospital stay in hours	8	10	<0.001
Fever >37.7 °C	576 (8)	347 (5)	<0.001
Age years (Median)	21	20
Sex- Male	4247 (60)	4112 (60)	0.242

Confidence intervals (CI) and p values were derived from χ² (chi-square) tests.

^¥Mann-Whitney U test, for continuous variables