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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2018 Nov;19(11):e603–e610. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001705

Table 2.

Most frequent discharge diagnoses and associated mortality by age (< 1 year vs. >= 1 year)

     Age

    < 1 year     >= 1 year

Diagnoses Number
(%)
Mortality
Rate
Diagnoses Number
(%)
Mortality
Rate

Sepsis 95 (31%) 60% Malaria 196 (30%) 14%
Respiratory Tract Infection 63 (20%) 22% Sepsis 80 (13%) 59%
Gastroenteritis 44 (14%) 19% Trauma 51 (8%) 8%
Surgical Abdomen 24 (8%) 19% Respiratory Tract Infection 49 (8%) 21%
Other 83 (27%) 24% Other 275 (41%) 20%