Admitted drowning patient disposition, stratified by age group: Maryland (2016–2019)
| Patient age | |||||||
| All ages* | 0–4 years | 5–9 years | 10–19 years | P value | |||
| (n=47) | (n=15) | (n=11) | (n=21) | ||||
| LOS† | 2 (1, 3) | 1 (1, 2) | 2 (1, 2) | 3 (1, 4) | 0.011 | ||
| Patient dispo | Patient died | 5 (11%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (9%) | 4 (19%) | 0.18 | |
| PICU | 29 (61%) | 10 (67%) | 9 (82%) | 10 (48%) | |||
| 1–4 days | 26 (90%) | 10 (100%) | 8 (89%) | 8 (80%) | 0.33 | ||
| 5–10 days | 2 (7%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (9%) | 1 (20%) | |||
| 11–29 days | 1 (3%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (20%) | |||
| Other unit | 13 (28%) | 5 (33%) | 1 (9%) | 7 (33%) | |||
| Year | 2016 | 17 (36%) | 6 (40%) | 4 (36%) | 7 (33%) | 0.56 | |
| 2017 | 12 (26%) | 5 (33%) | 3 (27%) | 4 (19%) | |||
| 2018 | 12 (26%) | 4 (27%) | 3 (27%) | 5 (24%) | |||
| 2019 | 6 (13%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (9%) | 5 (245) | |||
| Quarter | January–March | 3 (6%) | 1 (7%) | 1 (9%) | 1 (5%) | 0.97 | |
| April–June | 18 (38%) | 5 (33%) | 4 (36%) | 9 (43%) | |||
| July–September | 26 (55%) | 9 (60%) | 6 (55%) | 11 (53%) | |||
| October–December | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | |||
*Data represented as n (%).
†Data reported as median with IQR in days.
dispo, disposition; LOS, length of stay; PICU, paediatric intensive care unit; RH, referring hospital.