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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2019 Jun;20(6):501–509. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000001886

Table 1:

Characteristics of patients meeting initial screening sepsis criteria who were enrolled in the Outcomes Assessment Program with complete PedsQL™ data compared to patients not enrolled in the Outcomes Assessment Program or with missing PedsQL™ data

Patient Characteristic Sepsis with PedsQL™ No. (%) Sepsis without PedsQL™ No. (%) p-value
  n = 940 n = 4203  
Gender, female 445 (47.4) 1980 (47.1) 0.90

Age, years, median (IQR) 5.9 (1.9–12.4) 5.6 (1.4–12.8) 0.09

Race <0.001
 White 557 (59.3) 2152 (51.2)
 Asian 96 (10.2) 449 (10.7)
 Other 248 (26.4) 1373 (32.7)
 Unknown 39 (4.2) 227 (5.4)

Hispanic Ethnicity 170 (18.1) 726 (17.3) 0.55

PMCA Category <0.001
 No chronic disease 465 (56.0) 1724 (43.6)
 Non-complex chronic disease 167 (20.1) 708 (17.9)
 Complex chronic disease 198 (23.9) 1523 (38.5)

Sepsis category <0.001
 Sepsis 846 (90.0) 3537 (84.2)
 Severe sepsis 44 (4.7) 205 (4.9)
 Septic shock 50 (5.3) 461 (11.0)

ICU admission 119 (12.7) 744 (17.7) <0.001

MPEWS a,b, median (IQR) 3 (2–4) 3 (2–5) 0.02

PRISM IIIc, median (IQR) 3 (0–6) 3 (0–9) 0.03

PELODa,c, median (IQR) 4 (2–7) 5 (3–10) 0.01

ICU LOS, days, median (IQR) 2 (1–4) 2 (1–6) 0.19

Hospital LOS, days, median (IQR) 3 (2–6) 3 (2–6) 0.17

Abbreviations: IQR, interquartile range; PMCA, Pediatric Medical Complexity Algorithm; MPEWS, Modified Pediatric Early Warning Score; PRISM, Pediatric Risk of Mortality; PELOD, Pediatric Organ Logistic Dysfunction; LOS, Length of stay

a

Highest of admission

b

Calculated for patients admitted to hospital ward

c

Calculated for patients admitted to ICU