ArticleJournal of hospital medicine2014
Admission chest radiographs predict illness severity for children hospitalized with pneumonia.
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- Factors Associated With Pneumonia Severity in Children: A Systematic Review.Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society · 2018Pooled it
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- Association of Radiology Findings with Etiology of Community Acquired Pneumonia among Children.The Journal of pediatrics · 2023Article
- The burden of influenza and other respiratory viruses in hospitalized infants and children in a university hospital, Jordan.Multidisciplinary respiratory medicine · 2021Article
- Factors associated with serious outcomes of pneumonia among children in a birth cohort in South Africa.PloS one · 2021Article
- Automated Assessment and Tracking of COVID-19 Pulmonary Disease Severity on Chest Radiographs using Convolutional Siamese Neural Networks.Radiology. Artificial intelligence · 2020Article
- Interpretation of pediatric chest radiographs by non-radiologist clinicians in Botswana using World Health Organization criteria for endpoint pneumonia.Pediatric radiology · 2020Article
- Enhancing Comparative Effectiveness Research With Automated Pediatric Pneumonia Detection in a Multi-Institutional Clinical Repository: A PHIS+ Pilot Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Article
- Chest Radiographic Findings and Outcomes of Pneumonia Among Children in Botswana.The Pediatric infectious disease journal · 2016Article
- Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Illness Severity among Children Hospitalized with Pneumonia.The Journal of pediatrics · 2015Article
- Community-acquired pneumonia among children: the latest evidence for an updated management.Jornal de pediatriaReview
- Prevalence and factors associated with admission to the intensive care unit in children hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia.Revista peruana de medicina experimental y salud publicaObservational
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Abstract
objectiveTo assess whether radiographic findings predict outcomes among children hospitalized with pneumonia.
methodsThis retrospective study included children <18 years of age from 4 children's hospitals admitted in 2010 with clinical and radiographic evidence of pneumonia. Admission radiographs were categorized as single lobar, unilateral or bilateral multilobar, or interstitial. Pleural effusions were classified as absent, small, or moderate/large. Propensity scoring was used to adjust for potential confounders, including need for supplemental oxygen, intensive care, and mechanical ventilation, as well as hospital length of stay and duration of supplemental oxygen.
resultsThere were 406 children (median age, 3 years). Infiltrate patterns included: single lobar, 61%; multilobar unilateral, 13%; multilobar bilateral, 16%; and interstitial, 10%. Pleural effusion was present in 21%. Overall, 63% required supplemental oxygen (median duration, 31.5 hours), 8% required intensive care, and 3% required mechanical ventilation. Median length of stay was 51.5 hours. Compared with single lobar infiltrate, all other infiltrate patterns were associated with need for intensive care; only bilateral multilobar infiltrate was associated with need for mechanical ventilation (adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 3.0, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.2-7.9). Presence of effusion was associated with increased length of stay and duration of supplemental oxygen; only moderate/large effusion was associated with need for intensive care (aOR: 3.2, 95% CI: 1.1-8.9) and mechanical ventilation (aOR: 14.8, 95% CI: 9.8-22.4).
conclusionsAdmission radiographic findings are associated with important hospital outcomes and care processes and may help predict disease severity.
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