This is a replication dataset for the submitted manuscript "Inpatient and post-discharge mortality among children 5-12 years old in rural Kenya."
The data was used in a secondary analysis of children aged 5 to 12 years admitted at Kilifi County hospital from January 2007 to December 2016 and linked with Kilifi Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS) to obtain their vital status one year after hospital discharge. The objective of the study was to describe types of illness leading to admission to hospital and mortality during inpatient and one-year post-discharge periods among children admitted at Kilifi County Hospital, Kenya.
The data package contains the following files:
Data files
a) Over5years_multipleadmissions.dta This file contains clinical, athropometric, CBC, blood & CSF culture at the time of hospital admission (at KCH) for children aged 5 to 12 years from 2007 to 2016.
b) over5years_khdss.dta
This file contains Vital status in the community following hospital dsicharge. To compute the one-year post-discharge mortality, this file has to be merged with KCH admissions (Over5years_multipleadmissions.dta).
c) over5yearschemistry.dta
This file has the biochemistry variables that were not systematically collected at admission. This file is used to run a sub-analysis of the chemistry factors assicoated with both inpatient and post-dsicharge mortality.
Statistical analysis scripts included;
All the three files were generated using STATA/IC (version 15.1; StataCorp, College Station, TX, USA).
a) 5older years analysis_v1.do
This analysis script is used to generate the summary participants characteristics at admission, reasons for admission to hospital and inpatient mortality including factors associated with inpatient deaths.
b) post-discharge analysis_over5years.do
This analysis script runs the post-discharge analysis. It merges the Over5years_multipleadmissions.dta with the over5years_khdss.dta, computes time under follow-up, post-discharge deaths, mortality rates and factors associated with post-discharge deaths.
Data dictionary
a) Dataset_codebook.csv This data dictionary contain a list of the variables of data collected at admission and discharge and their description.
b) Discharge_diagnosis codes.csv
This file contain the list of codes for discharge diagnosis.