Table 5. Care-seeking and clinical progression after recruitment, by blood glucose concentration, prospective cohort study of survival in children with hypoxaemia and/or hypoglycaemia on referral, Malawi, 2019–2020.
| Group | No. in group | Children who received further care,a no. (%) | Hours to receipt of further care,b median (IQR) | Blood glucose concentration, mmol/L |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (95% CI) |
P c | |||||
| At study recruitment | At subsequent facility | |||||
| All children | 826 | 344 (41.7) | 5.0 (2.9–8.0) | 5.92 (5.70 to 6.14) | 5.86 (5.66 to 6.06) | 0.603 |
| Normoglycaemic childrend | 725 | 299 (41.2) | 5.0 (3.1–7.9) | 6.31 (6.10 to 6.52) | 6.03 (5.82 to 6.24) | 0.018 |
| Moderately hypoglycaemic childrend | 74 | 30 (40.5) | 4.3 (3.2–25.7) | 3.48 (3.33 to 3.61) | 4.75 (4.18 to 5.32) | < 0.001 |
| Severely hypoglycaemic childrend | 19 | 11 (57.9) | 3.9 (2.3–7.1) | 2.39 (2.15 to 2.63) | 4.48 (3.35 to 5.62) | 0.001 |
| Children with missing data | 8 | 4 (50.0) | 3.8 (2.9–6.6) | ND | 7.17 (4.06 to 10.27) | NA |
CI: confidence interval; IQR: interquartile range; NA: not applicable; ND: not determined.
a Further care included both hospital admission (306 children) and outpatient care at a hospital or health-care facility (38 children).
b The time from recruitment to presentation at the first subsequent facility.
c Means were compared using a t-test.
d Definitions of normoglycaemia and hypoglycaemia are given in Box 1.