Authors
Cameron C Grant, Diane Emery, Tania Milne, Gregor Coster, Christopher B Forrest, Clare R Wall, Robert Scragg, Richard Aickin, Sue Crengle, Alison Leversha, Colin Tukuitonga, Elizabeth M Robinson
Publication date
2012/5
Journal
Journal of paediatrics and child health
Volume
48
Issue
5
Pages
402-412
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Asia
Description
Aim: To identify risk factors for children developing and being hospitalised with community‐acquired pneumonia.
Methods: Children <5 years old residing in urban Auckland, New Zealand were enrolled from 2002 to 2004. To assess the risk of developing pneumonia, children hospitalised with pneumonia (n= 289) plus children with pneumonia discharged from the Emergency Department (n= 139) were compared with a random community sample of children without pneumonia (n= 351). To assess risk of hospitalisation, children hospitalised with pneumonia were compared with the children discharged from the Emergency Department. Adjusted odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used to estimate the risk of pneumonia and hospitalisation with pneumonia.
Results: After adjustment for season, age and ethnicity there was an increased risk of pneumonia associated with lower weight for …
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