| Title: |
Characteristics of children requiring admission to neonatal care and paediatric intensive care before the age of 2 years in England and Wales: a data linkage study |
| Authors: |
Seaton, S; Battersby, C; David, PJ; Fenton, AC; Anderson, J; Van Hasselt, TJH; Draper, ES |
| Source: |
394 ; 387 |
| Publisher Information: |
BMJ Publishing Group |
| Publication Year: |
2024 |
| Collection: |
Imperial College London: Spiral |
| Description: |
Objective: To quantify the characteristics of children admitted to neonatal units (NNUs) and paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) before the age of 2 years. Design: A data linkage study of routinely collected data. Setting: National Health Service NNUs and PICUs in England and Wales Patients: Children born from 2013 to 2018. Interventions: None. Main outcome measure: Admission to PICU before the age of 2 years. Results: A total of 384 747 babies were admitted to an NNU and 4.8% (n=18 343) were also admitted to PICU before the age of 2 years. Approximately half of all children admitted to PICU under the age of 2 years born in the same time window (n=18 343/37 549) had previously been cared for in an NNU. The main reasons for first admission to PICU were cardiac (n=7138) and respiratory conditions (n=5386). Cardiac admissions were primarily from children born at term (n=5146), while respiratory admissions were primarily from children born preterm ( |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
Archives of Disease in Childhood; http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/109321 |
| DOI: |
10.1136/archdischild-2023-325986 |
| Availability: |
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/109321; https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2023-325986 |
| Rights: |
© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.BC87EB0C |
| Database: |
BASE |