Clinical Data for Severe HMPV Pneumonia in Children, Shanghai 2021-2024

A retrospective cohort of 878 children hospitalized with human metapneumovirus-positive community-acquired pneumonia at Shanghai Children’s Hospital from 2021 to 2024. The dataset includes demographics, clinical features, laboratory findings, and pathogen co-detection, with 28.0% of cases classified as severe. Author Lijiao Liu published the data on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Identify risk factors for severe disease based on clinical features like wheezing and premature birth.
• Analyze the association between elevated inflammatory markers (NLR, PCT, CRP) and disease severity.
• Investigate the impact of co-infection with Mycoplasma pneumoniae on HMPV pneumonia outcomes.
• Build predictive models for severe pediatric pneumonia using demographic and laboratory variables.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 878 patient records from a single hospital over a 4-year period (2021-2024).
• Multivariate analysis identified 6 independent risk factors with specific odds ratios and confidence intervals.
• Clear case classification into mild (n=632) and severe (n=246) groups based on established criteria.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, requiring manual inspection after download.
• Data is from a single hospital in Shanghai, which may limit generalizability to other populations.
• The file format is DOCX, which may require conversion for direct analysis.

Provenance

Source

Shanghai Children’s Hospital, author Lijiao Liu.

Collection Method

Retrospective cohort study of hospitalized children.

Time Range

2021 to 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 05:24:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Shanghai, China