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Inpatient outcomes for the first hospital admission between January 1999 and March 2001 (pre-donation period) and between April 2001 and December 2002 |
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| Outcome |
Before April 2001 Pre-donation n = 77 |
After April 2001 Donation n = 128 |
P-value for comparison |
Overall n = 205 |
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| Length of hospital stay, median days (IQR) |
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| GF Jooste hospital |
4 (2.5–9) |
5 (3–9) |
0.2 |
5 (3–9) |
| Tertiary hospital |
7 (4–12.5) |
4 |
0.4 |
7 (4–11.8) |
| Total hospital stay |
6 (4–11) |
5 (3–9) |
0.4 |
5 (3–10) |
| In hospital mortality, n (%) |
18 (23.4) |
34 (26.6) |
0.6 |
52 (25.4) |
| Discharge outcome, n (%) |
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| No disability |
44 (57.1) |
66 (51.6) |
0.8 |
110 (53.7) |
| Disability |
11 (14.3) |
16 (12.5) |
27 (13.2) |
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| Unspecified disability |
3 (3.9) |
9 (7) |
12 (5.9) |
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| Palliative care |
1 (1.3) |
3 (2.3) |
56 (27.3) |
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Schaars et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2006 6:118 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-6-118 |
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