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Table 1 Summary of demographics and characteristics of hospital admissions in children, Ho Chi Minh City, 2005–2015 (N = 4419)

From: Biphasic pattern in the effect of severe measles infection; the difference between additive and multiplicative scale

 

n

MeV infection

n*

2 years before MeV

n*

After MeV

Gender

4419

 

988

 

695

 

 Female

 

1880 (43%)

 

357 (36%)

 

275 (40%)

 Male

 

2539 (57%)

 

631 (64%)

 

420 (60%)

Age at infection (years)

4419

1.45 (0.80, 3.01)

1370

0.76 (0.48, 1.32)

961

1.48 (1.02, 2.24)

Hospital stay (days)

4419

4 (2, 6)

1370

5 (3, 7)

961

4 (3, 7)

Outcome

4419

 

1370

 

961

 

 Dead

 

3 (0%)

   

2 (0%)

 Discharged with presumably worse condition

 

35 (1%)

 

0 (0%)

 

8 (1%)

 Discharged with recovery

 

4342 (98%)

 

1366 (100%)

 

850 (89%)

 Unknown

 

39 (1%)

 

4 (0%)

 

101 (11%)

  1. n* (in the period before and after measles) is the number of patients with hospital admission for the variable sex, and the total number of admissions for the other characteristics. For continuous variables, median and 1st/3rd quartile are presented. For binary and categorical variables, number of cases and percentage are presented