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2922245

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-4-19
pubmed:abstractText
We reviewed charts of 261 children seen at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin from 1957 to 1987 with culture-proven meningococcemia or meningococcal meningitis, and we analyzed trends in mortality and disease severity for that interval. Overall case fatality was 10%, ranging from 9% in the period 1957 to 1963, to 16% in the period 1980 to 1987 (P = 0.15). The percent of patients admitted with severe disease increased from 14% to 38% (P = 0.001). When stratified by disease severity, case-fatality rates did not change with time. We conclude that technologic advances of the past 30 years had no measurable impact on mortality from meningococcal infection in our hospital and that crude case-fatality rates can be misleading if disease severity is not considered.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0891-3668
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8-11
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Trends in mortality in children hospitalized with meningococcal infections, 1957 to 1987.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 53201.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article