Table 5.

Mortality in children who received a tracheostomy between 1985 and 1994, between 1995 and 2004, and between 2005 and 2014.

Mortality	Decade n (%)			p-Valuea
	1985–1994	1995–2004	2005–2014	1985–1994 vs. 1995–2004	1985–1994 vs. 2005–2014	1995–2004 vs. 2005–2014
	n = 480	n = 1150	n = 4303
Mortality associated with tracheostomy	10 (2.1)	13 (1.1)	38 (0.9)	0.137	0.012b	0.439
Overall mortality	66 (13.8)	210 (18.3)	458 (10.6)	0.027b	0.039b	<0.001b

^aChi-square test.

^bp < 0.05.