Table 2.

Odds ratio for having an emergency admission with one of the ten most common diagnoses (2000–2013) for the period 2010–2013 relative to 2000–2013. Odds ratios were adjusted for age, sex, deprivation, month of admission and clustering of admissions for an individual child and individual health board

Diagnoses	Total number of emergency admissions with the condition	Emergency admissions per 1000 children	Proportion of all emergency admissions	Odds ratio for emergency admission comparing 2010–2013 with 2000–2003
Gastroenteritis	50,866	4.18	8.8%	0.863 [0.842, 0.885]
Upper respiratory tract infection	41,921	3.45	7.3%	0.777 [0.756, 0.798]
Viral infection	36,910	3.03	6.5%	2.060 [2.002, 2.120]
Bronchiolitis	35,769	2.94	6.3%	1.240 [1.102, 1.279]
Cough, wheeze or shortness of breath	29,156	2.40	5.1%	0.932 [0.898, 0.967]
Asthma (not including wheeze)	28,521	2.34	5.0%	0.732 [0.708, 0.757]
Lower respiratory tract infection (including pneumonia)	26,626	2.19	4.7%	1.097 [1.061, 1.135]
Croup (not including stridor)	15,381	1.19	2.7%	0.876 [0.838, 0.915]
Tonsillitis	14,427	1.13	2.5%	1.460 [1.392, 1.531]
Convulsion	13,715	4.18	2.4%	0.734 [0.697, 0.765]