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. 2021 Dec 28;128:33–44. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2021.12.010

TABLE 3.

Hospital Outcomes by Neurological Manifestation Status and Acute SARS-CoV-2 or MIS-C Clinical Diagnosis

Variables Overall
N = 1493
Neurological Manifestation
N = 652 (44%)
No Neurological Manifestation
N = 841 (56%)
P Value Acute SARS-CoV-2
N = 1278 (86%)
MIS-C
N = 215 (14%)
P Value
Highest level of care
 Ward 975 (65.3) 319 (48.9) 656 (78.0) <0.001 909 (71.1) 66 (30.7) <0.001
 ICU 518 (34.7) 333 (51.1) 185 (22.0) 369 (28.9) 149 (69.3)
Initial Glasgow Coma Scale score n = 990 n = 421 n = 569 n = 785 n = 205
 13-15 928 (93.7) 369 (87.7) 559 (98.3) <0.001 735 (93.6) 193 (94.1) 0.094
 9-12 40 (4.0) 32 (7.6) 8 (1.4) 30 (3.8) 10 (4.9)
 3-8 22 (2.2) 20 (4.8) 2 (0.4) 20 (2.6) 2 (1.0)
Initial PELOD (if ICU) n = 229 n = 149 n = 80 n = 118 n = 111
 Median 5 (1-11) 6 (2-11) 2 (1-10) 0.086 3 (1-11) 5 (2-11) 0.032
Hospital length of stay, days 4.00 (2-7) 5.00 (2-9) 3.00 (2-6) <0.001 3.00 (2-7) 7.00 (5-9) 0.008
ICU length of stay, days 4.00 (3-7) 5.00 (3-8) 3·00 (2-5.3) <0.001 4.00 (2-7) 4.00 (3-6) 0.046
Hospital mortality 15 (1.0) 14 (2·2) 1 (0.1) <0.001 11 (0.9) 4 (1.9) 0.174
Hospital disposition n = 1462 n = 633 n = 829 n = 1247 n = 215
 Home 1391 (95.2) 680 (91·6) 811 (97.8) <0.001 1186 (95.1) 205 (95.3) 0.730
 Inpatient rehabilitation 25 (1.7) 22 (3·5) 3 (0.4) 20 (1.6) 5 (2.3)
 Long-term care facility 2 (0.1) 2 (0·3) 0 (0.0) 2 (0.2) 0 (0.0)
 Other 44 (3.0) 29 (4·6) 15 (1.8) 39 (3.1) 5 (2.3)

Abbreviations:

ICU = Intensive care unit

IQR = Interquartile range

MIS-C = Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children

PELOD = Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction

SARS-CoV-2 = Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2

Results are reported as median (IQR) versus n (%).