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Table 1 Patient demographics

From: A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of rapid on-site influenza and respiratory syncytial virus PCR testing in paediatric and adult populations

 

ACH All patient typesa

ACH inpatient

ROST

n = 322

Standard

n = 384

p value

ROST

n = 181

Standard

n = 194

p value

Male

192 (60.6)

215 (64.0)

0.359

104 (67.5)

109 (66.2)

0.835

Female

130 (40.4)

169 (44.0)

77 (42.5)

85 (43.8)

 < 1 years

23 (7.14)

26 (6.77)

0.532

20 (11.1)

19 (9.79)

0.310

1–5 years

195 (60.6)

224 (58.3)

107 (59.1)

104 (53.6)

6–18 years

104 (32.3)

134 (34.9)

104 (57.5)

133 (68.6)

 

PLC all patient typesa

PLC inpatient

ROST

n = 200

Standard

n = 222

 

ROST

n = 157

Standard

n = 175

 

Male

96 (48.0)

117 (52.7)

0.380

74 (47.1)

97 (55.4)

0.153

Female

104 (52.0)

105 (47.3)

83 (52.9)

78 (44.6)

0–5 years

8 (4.00)

5 (2.25)

0.692

5 (3.18)

5 (2.86)

0.979

6–17 years

4 (2.00)

3 (1.35)

0

0

18–65 years

93 (46.5)

109 (49.1)

65 (41.4)

73 (41.7)

 > 65 years

95 (47.5)

105 (47.3)

86 (54.8)

98 (56.0)

  1. Data are absolute numbers (% of total for the arm)
  2. ROST=rapid on-site respiratory virus testing
  3. aAt ACH all encounters included 674 individuals and at PLC 408 individuals. Statistics for sex was done using Fisher’s exact test and for age chi-squared test