Factors Associated With Mortality in Low-Risk Pediatric Critical Care Patients in The Netherlands*
Objective: To determine differences between survivors and nonsurvivors and factors associated with mortality in pediatric intensive care patients with low risk of mortality.
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Setting: Patients were selected from a national database including all admissions to the PICUs in The Netherlands between 2006 and 2012.
Patients: Patients less than 18 years old admitted to the PICU with a predicted mortality risk lower than 1% according to either the recalibrated Pediatric Risk of Mortality or the Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 were included.
Interventions: None.
Measurements and Main Results: In total, 16,874 low-risk admissions were included of which 86 patients (0.5%) died. Nonsurvivors had more unplanned admissions (74.4% vs 38.5%; p
Source: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine - Category: Pediatrics Tags: Online Clinical Investigations Source Type: research