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Table 1 Epidemiological characteristics of deaths caused by hand foot and mouth disease in Vietnam 2011

From: Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of children who died from hand, foot and mouth disease in Vietnam, 2011

Characteristic

No. of cases/total (%)

Demographic

 

  Male sex

116/169 (69)

  Age in month, Median (range)

25 (3–107)

  Age group ≤ 3 years

147/169 (87)

HFMD exposure

 

  Daycare attendance

10/56 (18)

  Known contact with HFMD cases

10/32 (31)

Disease recognition, referral and progression

 

  Admission within 3 days of symptom recognition

130/169 (77)

  Self-admission in severe state

62/102 (61)

  Fatal cases before admission

2/67 (3)

  Transferred to provincial or tertiary level hospital

54/166 (33)

  Diagnosis of HFMD at referral

29/44 (66)

  Referral under critical conditions

26/67 (39)

  Referral cases died before admission

4/67 (6)

  Days from referral hospital admission to death, median (inter-quartile range)

1 (1–3)

Fatal cases at hospital levels

 

  Tertiary level

139/169 (82)

  Province level

28/169 (17)

  District level

2/169 (1)

Time from admission to death, median (range)

 

  Tertiary level

1 (0–33)

  Province level

1 (0–7)

  District level

0.5 (0–1)