Patient characteristics and care pathways before admission to a pediatric intensive care unit, quality of care and their association with outcome by dead and alive children and univariate and multivariate analysis.

aOR, adjusted odds ratio; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; IQR, interquartile range.§Logistic regression model.aAge and no. of suboptimal care were treated as continuous variables (no deviation to linearity).bSeverity signs were hemodynamic failure, purpura, conscientiousness impairment, respiratory distress, meningism, behavioural changes or hypotonia.cOthers were 2 pneumonia with pleural effusion and a septic shock following pyelonephritis in a child with malformative uropathy in the deceased group, and 2 septic shock on bacterial cellulitis and a bacterial tracheitis in the survivor group.dOthers were, for survivors, Haemophilus influenzae (n = 3), Group B Streptococcus (n = 1), Staphylococcus aureus (n = 1), and for deceased children, E.coli (n = 1), Group A Streptococcus (n = 1), Salmonella spp (n = 1) and Mycoplama pneumoniae (n = 1).Patient characteristics and care pathways before admission to a pediatric intensive care unit, quality of care and their association with outcome by dead and alive children and univariate and multivariate analysis.