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Table 2 Clinical outcomes of immunocompromised patients with RSV infection

From: Burden of severe RSV disease among immunocompromised children and adults: a 10 year retrospective study

Variable, Number; (%) unless indicated otherwise

Children (N = 64)

Adult (N = 175)

p value

Total (N = 239)

All-cause admission to hospital

(adults: 5 missing values)

48 (75.0)

107 (62.9)

0.090

155 (66.2)

ARTI-attributable hospital admissiona

(adults: 5 missing values)

31 (48.4)

58 (34.1)

0.050

89 (38.0)

• Length of hospital stay (d) mean (SD)a

• 5 (3.5)

• 9 (12.0)

• < 0.001

• 7 (9.0)

• Admission to the ICUa

• 2 (6.5)

• 17 (29.3)

• 0.014

• 19 (21.3)

• Use of mechanical ventilationa

• 1 (3.2)

• 13 (22.4)

• 0.029

• 14 (15.7)

• Mortality within 30 days of admissiona

• 0

• 11 (19.0)

• 0.007

• 11 (12.4)

All-cause mortality within 30 days of admission

1 (1.6)

20 (11.4)

0.018

21 (8.8)

LRTI b(adults: 7 missing values)

26 (40.6)

85 (50.6)

0.188

111 (47.8)

RSV-attributable pneumoniab

12 (18.8)

62 (36.9)

0.008

74 (31.9)

• RSV documented from BALb

2 (16.7)

23 (37.1)

0.024

25 (33.8)

• RSV-bacterial co-infection documented from BAL

0

7 (11.3)

0.020

7 (9.5)

  1. aRefers to patients admitted to hospital for an acute-respiratory-tract infection (ARTI)-attributable hospital admission (i.e excluded patients admitted to hospital for other reasons). bRefers to all patients seen in an ambulatory setting or admitted to hospital for their RSV infection or for another reason. BAL: Bonchoalveolar lavage, SD: Standard deviation, LRTI: Lower respiratory tract infection (adults 7 missing values); d: days. RSV-attributable pneumonia (7 missing values)