Table 2 Outcome and neurological support, for all patients and by brain infection type
Characteristic | All patients | Encephalitis | Meningococcal meningitis | Meningitis, unspecified | Intracranial abscess | Infected CSF shunt | Bacterial meningitis, non-meningococcal | Viral meningitis | Tuberculous meningitis | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | Statistic | N | Statistic | N | Statistic | N | Statistic | N | Statistic | N | Statistic | N | Statistic | N | Statistic | |||
Neurological support required | 16,449 | 6624 (40.3%) | 5700 | 2154 (37.8%) | 1091 | 333 (30.5%) | 3097 | 1122 (36.2%) | 2400 | 1200 (50.0%) | 569 | 398 (69.9%) | 3095 | 1234 (39.9%) | 363 | 117 (32.2%) | 132 | 65 (49.2%) |
Neurological support days (days) | 16,449 | 0 (0, 2) | 5700 | 0 (0, 2) | 1091 | 0 (0, 1) | 3097 | 0 (0, 2) | 2400 | 0.5 (0, 3) | 569 | 3 (0, 8) | 3095 | 0 (0, 2) | 363 | 0 (0, 1) | 132 | 0 (0, 6) |
Mortality during hospital admission | 19,765 | 3945 (20.0%) | 6588 | 1293 (19.2%) | 1084 | 211 (19.3%) | 5256 | 1117 (20.8%) | 2665 | 527 (19.3%) | 635 | 83 (12.5%) | 3047 | 618 (19.9%) | 361 | 51 (14.1%) | 127 | 44 (33.3%) |
Expected dependency post discharge* | 14,770 | 5174 | 920 | 2750 | 2228 | 547 | 2704 | 330 | 116 | |||||||||
- No assistance | 8959 (60.7%) | 2953 (57.1%) | 687 (74.7%) | 1801 (65.5%) | 1177 (52.8%) | 222 (40.6%) | 1825 (67.5%) | 229 (69.4%) | 65 (56.0%) | |||||||||
- Minor assistance required | 3431 (23.2%) | 1333 (25.8%) | 153 (16.6%) | 581 (21.1%) | 601 (27.0%) | 143 (26.1%) | 537 (19.9%) | 62 (18.8%) | 21 (18.1%) | |||||||||
- Considerable assistance required | 1595 (10.8%) | 591 (11.4%) | 57 (6.2%) | 235 (8.5%) | 329 (14.8%) | 132 (24.1%) | 204 (7.5%) | 28 (8.5%) | 18 (15.5%) | |||||||||
- Total assistance required | 491 (3.3%) | 191 (3.7%) | 12 (1.3%) | 74 (2.7%) | 79 (3.5%) | 41 (7.5%) | 80 (3.0%) | 8 (2.4%) | 6 (5.2%) | |||||||||
- Expectation of dying | 294 (2.0%) | 106 (2.0%) | 11 (1.2%) | 59 (2.1%) | 42 (1.9%) | 9 (1.6%) | 58 (2.1%) | 3 (0.9%) | 6 (5.2%) | |||||||||