ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2021
Factors associated with mortality in intracranial infection patients admitted to pediatric intensive care unit: A retrospective cohort study.
Article in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.
- Article
- The evaluation value of disturbance coefficient combined with bedside continuous video electroencephalogram for the short-term prognosis of severe encephalitis in children.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- Development and Validation of a Neurological Outcome Prediction Score for Children Requiring Mechanical Ventilation: The NOPS-VC Score.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2025Article
- A nomogram for predicting early mortality in patients with traumatic brain injury requiring mechanical ventilation based on clinical laboratory data.Scientific reports · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundIntracranial infection is a major cause of emergency and death in children. To assist clinical decision-making in patient management, we conducted a study about factors associated with mortality. This study aimed to evaluate factors associated with mortality in pediatric patients with intracranial infection.
methodsWe performed a cohort retrospective study in our tertiary hospital to evaluate the outcomes of patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) from 2014 to 2018. The Chi-square test was performed to determine the significance of the predictor, and
resultsWe recruited 112 patients who were admitted to the PICU of our tertiary hospital. A total of 38.4% were diagnosed with encephalitis, 9.8% meningitis and 51.8% meningoencephalitis. Of the 112 patients who met the inclusion criteria, 28 (25%) patients died in the PICU. The need of mechanical ventilation support variable had a statistically significant association with mortality (RR 22
conclusionRecognition of conditions that exacerbate intracranial infection in children needs to be done as early as possible. Moreover, the need of mechanical ventilation support in the PICU needs more attention.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.