Clinical characteristics and outcomes of children admitted to adult intensive care and high-dependency units in Kenya: a multicenter registry-based analysis

In a representative sample of Kenyan ICUs, one out of nine admissions to adult ICUs and HDUs involves a child, who often receive invasive ventilation and have a high crude mortality rate. In this cohort of patients, all risk factors for mortality were non-modifiable.

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Frontiers in Pediatrics
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2025-12-05
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2025.1672012
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Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
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In a representative sample of Kenyan ICUs, one out of nine admissions to adult ICUs and HDUs involves a child, who often receive invasive ventilation and have a high crude mortality rate. In this cohort of patients, all risk factors for mortality were non-modifiable.

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Egerton University (KE), Aga Khan University Hospital Nairobi (KE), Nairobi Hospital (KE), Society of Critical Care Medicine (US), Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa (KE), Dedan Kimathi University of Technology (KE), University of Oxford (GB), Kibabii University (KE), Aga Khan University Nairobi (KE), Amsterdam Neuroscience (NL), Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development (NL), Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (TH), Child Welfare Society of Kenya (KE), Kisii University (KE), Amsterdam University Medical Centers (NL), University of Bari Aldo Moro (IT), Medical University of Vienna (AT)
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