Childhood interstitial lung disease due to surfactant protein C deficiency: frequent use and costs of hospital services for a single case in Australia

Table 1 Hospital admissions, presentations to emergency departments and outpatient clinic attendances

Admissions
Tertiary hospital admissions
Paediatric hospital managing the condition of ChILD	22
Other paediatric hospital	1
Adult hospital with paediatric lung transplant unit	4
Regional hospital admissions	5
Total	32
Reasons for hospital admissions
Respiratory distress	7
Blood gas monitoring	4
Multi-disciplinary review	6
Intravenous immunoglobulin	4
Lung biopsy	2
Respiratory infection	2
Respiratory airway dilation (post-lung transplant)	5
Lung transplant	1
Sleep study (scheduled)	1
Inpatient days
Days as an inpatient of tertiary hospitals
Paediatric hospital managing the condition of ChILD	337
Other paediatric hospital	14
Adult hospital with paediatric lung transplant unit	33
Days as an inpatient of the regional hospital	61
Total*	443
Total number of days in PICU ^a	298
Presentations to Emergency Departments	10
Direct transfers between regional and tertiary hospitals	3
Outpatient attendances**
Tertiary hospital clinics	18
Regional hospital clinics	9
Total	27

*The total is less than the sum of tertiary and regional hospital inpatient days because on two occasions the patient was an inpatient of two hospitals on the same day.
**Does not include outpatient clinic consults while the patient was an inpatient.
^aPICU, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.

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