Association of Pathogen Type With Outcomes of Children Encountering Community-Acquired Pediatric Septic Shock.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the association of pathogen type with mortality, functional status, and health-related quality of life (HRQL) among children at hospital discharge/1 month following hospitalization for septic shock.

Design

Secondary database analysis of a prospective, descriptive cohort investigation.

Setting

Twelve academic PICUs in the United States.

Patients

Critically ill children, 1 month to 18 years old, enrolled from 2013 to 2017.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Association of clinical outcomes with pathogen type was assessed for all patients and separately for surviving patients enrolled in the primary Life After Pediatric Sepsis Evaluation (LAPSE) investigation. For this secondary analysis, we predicted that age w

SUBMITTER: Salud D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9529775 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature