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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of patients

From: Analysis of antibiotic treatment of children in a Shanghai tertiary hospital based on point prevalence surveys

Characteristics

Groups

Number

Composition ratio (%)

Sex

Male

2428

61.1

Female

1547

38.9

Age in years

< 1

1449

36.5

1–5

1654

41.6

6–10

614

15.4

≥11

258

6.5

Diagnosis

Surgical problem

1231

31.0

Neonatal disease

831

20.9

Pneumoniaa

577

14.5

Oncologic

251

6.3

Congenital heart disease

155

3.9

Diseases of the immune system

148

3.7

Acute infectionb

138

3.5

Leukemia

141

3.5

Chronic kidney disease

101

2.5

Diseases of the digestive system

92

2.3

Neurological and mental illness

73

1.8

Other respiratory diseasec

64

1.6

Other hematologic disease d

49

1.2

Sepsis

45

1.1

Genetic and metabolic disease

43

1.1

Cardiovascular diseases

19

0.5

Other/unknown

17

0.4

  1. Note:aexcluding neonatal pneumonia; bexcluding pneumonia and sepsis; crespiratory diseases except pneumonia; d hematologic diseases except leukemia