Table 2 Total admissions and proportion resulting in PICU admission by selected comorbidity groups within each cohort (COVID-19, PIMS-TS and other pandemic year admissions, all admissions in 2019–2020, influenza admissions in 2019–2020)
COVID-19 | PIMS-TS | Other pandemic year admissions | All admissions 2019–2020 | Influenza 2019–2020 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | PICU | % PICU | n | PICU | % PICU | n | PICU | % PICU | n | PICU | % PICU | n | PICU | % PICU | ||
Total | 6,338 | 259 | (4.1) | 712 | 312 | (43.8) | 463,556 | 5016 | (1.1) | 771,591 | 7282 | (0.9) | 6,968 | 161 | (2.3) | |
Any comorbidity | No comorbidity | 2,923 | 22 | (0.8) | 258 | 50 | (19.4) | 242,245 | 358 | (0.1) | 417,842 | 811 | (0.2) | 3,859 | 30 | (0.8) |
Comorbidity present | 3,415 | 237 | (6.9) | 454 | 262 | (57.7) | 221,311 | 4658 | (2.1) | 353,749 | 6472 | (1.8) | 3,109 | 131 | (4.2) | |
Number of body systems | One body system | 1,396 | 35 | (2.5) | 182 | 76 | (41.8) | 114,597 | 1015 | (0.9) | 185,453 | 1436 | (0.8) | 1,449 | 29 | (2.0) |
More than one body system | 2,019 | 202 | (10.0) | 272 | 186 | (68.4) | 106,714 | 3643 | (3.4) | 168,296 | 5036 | (3.0) | 1,660 | 102 | (6.1) | |
Life-limiting or non-life-limiting comorbidity | Non-life-limiting comorbidity | 2,272 | 79 | (3.5) | 307 | 157 | (51.1) | 169,415 | 1701 | (1.0) | 272,959 | 2323 | (0.9) | 2,065 | 43 | (2.1) |
Life-limiting comorbidity | 1,143 | 158 | (13.8) | 147 | 105 | (71.4) | 51,896 | 2957 | (5.7) | 80,790 | 4149 | (5.1) | 1,044 | 88 | (8.4) | |
