Table 3.

National hospital data of children < 15 years discharged deceased in Ireland for the period January 2015-December 2016 with analysis of bed usage

	Number of deaths number of patients (%)	Total length of stay (LOS) number of days (%) [Median LOS]	Standard bed LOS number of days (%)	ICU total LOS number of days (%)
All patients	365 (100%)	5566.5 (100%) [3 days]	1527.5 (100%)	4039 (100%)
RD patients	240 (66%)	4845.0 (87%) [5 days]	1504.0 (98.5%)	3341 (83%)
Non-RD patients	125 (34%)	721.5 (13%) [2 days]	23.5 (1.5%)	698 (17%)
Z score testing	Z = 46.6 p < 0.0001*	Z = 7.96 p < 0.0001*	Z = 52.17 p < 0.00001*	Z = 5.17 p < 0.0001*

^*p < 0.0001 for the Z score testing the hypothesis that there is a difference in the proportion of children with a RD in national hospital data compared to the expected proportion from children with RD in the general population