Hospital readmissions with acute infectious diseases in New Zealand children < 2 years of age.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Infectious diseases are the leading cause of hospital admissions in young children. Hospitalisation with an infectious disease is a recurrent event for some children. Our objective was to describe risk factors for infectious disease readmission following hospital admission with an infectious disease in the first two years of life.

Methods

We performed a national cohort study of New Zealand children, born 2005-2009, with an infectious disease admission before age 24 months. Children readmitted with an infectious disease within 12 months of the first infectious disease admission were identified. Every infectious disease admission was categorised as a respiratory, enteric, skin and soft tissue, urinary or other infection. Independent associations of demographic and c

SUBMITTER: Seibt S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5838880 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature