Increasing paediatric empyema admissions

Paediatric Empyema Thoracis: Recommendations for Management

Gender disparity in paediatric hospital admissions.

INTRODUCTION To determine the magnitude of gender difference in paediatric hospital admissions. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed discharge data of general medical paediatric admissions to a university teaching hospital in Hong Kong from 1984 to 2000. Based on ICD-9 codes, 9 broad categories of disease with related sub-categories were used, namely respiratory, gastrointestinal, neurological, ...

A study of admissions to paediatric beds.

The reasons for admission of children to paediatric beds and the appropriateness of those admissions were investigated by a retrospective study of admission notes by two paediatricians. Approximately 3% and 9% of the admissions according to assessor, were for purely social reasons and the remainder for predominantly medical reasons. There were a number of admissions for whom the assessors were ...

Increasing Hospital Admissions for Pneumonia, England

Pneumonia is an important cause of illness and death in England. To describe trends in pneumonia hospitalizations, we extracted information on all episodes of pneumonia that occurred from April 1997 through March 2005 recorded in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) database by searching for International Classification of Diseases 10th revision codes J12-J18 in any diagnostic field. The age-s...

Paediatric empyema: a case report and literature review.

OBJECTIVE To present a case of bilateral parapneumonic effusions in a child with Pneumococcal pneumonia and bacteraemia managed aggressively with early thoracotomies. The literature from peer reviewed journals is summarized and the different management strategies are discussed. METHODS Articles and reviews from peer reviewed journals on the management of empyema in children and adults. RESU...