Evaluation of paediatric nursing-sensitive outcomes in an Australian population using linked administrative hospital data

Table 3 Unadjusted rates for nursing-sensitive outcomes

	No. of events	Total hospital separations	No./1000 hospital separations	Total patient days	Rate/10000 patient days
LRTI	395	42732	9.24	368835	10.71
GI infection	342	24415	14.01	319683	10.70
Pneumonia	337	102877	3.28	436271	7.72
Surgical wound infection^a	225	21592	10.42	^___b	^___b
Physiologic/metabolic derangement^a	163	17980	9.07	107594	15.15
Sepsis	136	41807	3.25	373011	3.65
Postoperative cardiopulmonary complications^a	124	15322	8.09	111468	11.12
Arrest/shock/respiratory failure	94	106369	0.88	447886	2.10
CNS complication	92	87926	1.05	318889	2.89
CVL infection	58	74041	0.78	465663	1.25
Infectious disease	29	52396	0.55	440153	0.66
Pressure ulcer	25	49452	0.51	412555	0.61
Failure to rescue	17	22081	0.77	213316	0.80

Note. LRTI = lower respiratory tract infection other than pneumonia; GI = gastrointestinal tract; CNS = central nervous system; CVL = central venous line.
^a Risk pool was surgical patients only.
^b Result not applicable.

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