Table 2.
Principal diagnosis for NSW pediatric post-neonatal hospital admissions which included time in an ICU 2010–2013
| Reason for admission to hospital | PICU hospitals N = 7053 n (%) |
Non-PICU hospitals N = 472 n (%) |
p-value c |
|---|---|---|---|
| Principal diagnosis | |||
| Respiratory illnesses | 2012 (28.5) | 121 (25.6) | 0.18 |
| Acute infections | 1341 (19.0) | 48 (10.2) | < 0.001 |
| Asthma | 348 (4.9) | 56 (11.9) | < 0.001 |
| Congenital anomalies | 1599 (22.7) | 10 (2.1) | < 0.001 |
| Neurological disorders | 597 (8.5) | 30 (6.4) | 0.11 |
| Injury and external cause | 501 (7.1) | 137 (29.0) | < 0.001 |
| Neoplasms | 534 (7.6) | 5 (1.1) | < 0.001 |
| Endocrine/metabolic diseases | 197 (2.8) | 77 (16.3) | < 0.001 |
| Circulatory system disorders | 267 (3.8) | 18 (3.8) | 0.98 |
| Infections (except respiratory) | 255 (3.6) | 11 (2.3) | 0.14 |
| Musculoskeletal disorders | 243 (3.5) | 5 (1.7) | 0.005 |
| Appendicitis | 41 (0.6) | 6 (1.3) | 0.07 |
| Complications of medical care | 152 (2.2) | a (0.9) | 0.05 |
| Other miscellaneous | 655 (9.3) | 48 (10.2) | 0.52 |
| Chronic disease conditions b | |||
| none | 1561 (22.1) | 158 (33.5) | < 0.001 |
| 1 | 3638 (51.6) | 271 (57.4) | 0.01 |
| ≥ 2 | 1854 (26.3) | 43 (9.1) | < 0.001 |
aCell size < 5
bCategorized according to Hardelid
cTest of two proportions (row values)