Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of children with non-severe, severe or very severe community-acquired pneumonia

Characteristics	Severity by the World Health Organization 2000 criteria
	Non-severe (n = 53)	Severe (n = 111)	Very severe (n = 17)
Age (months)a, b	23 (13–35)	16 (9–26)	18 (13–26)
Length of disease (days)a, c	7 (5–13)	7 (4–11)	8 (4–11)
Tachypnoead	53 (100.0)	97 (87.4)	15 (88.2)
Chest indrawingd	0	109 (98.2)	7 (41.2)
Supraclavicular recessiond	0	4 (3.6)	0
Inability to drinkd	0	0	17 (100.0)

^aMedian (interquartile range)

^bChildren with non-severe community-acquired pneumonia versus those with severe (p = 0.03) or versus those with severe and very severe CAP (p = 0.04)

^cNo significant difference was found

^dResults in n (%)