Characteristic | No. of cases/total (%) |
---|---|
Demographic | Â |
  Male sex | 116/169 (69) |
  Age in month, Median (range) | 25 (3–107) |
  Age group ≤ 3 years | 147/169 (87) |
HFMD exposure | Â |
  Daycare attendance | 10/56 (18) |
  Known contact with HFMD cases | 10/32 (31) |
Disease recognition, referral and progression | Â |
  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 | Â |
  Tertiary level | 139/169 (82) |
  Province level | 28/169 (17) |
  District level | 2/169 (1) |
Time from admission to death, median (range) | Â |
  Tertiary level | 1 (0–33) |
  Province level | 1 (0–7) |
  District level | 0.5 (0–1) |