Risk Factors for ICU Admission in Hospitalized Children with RSV Infection, 2022-2025

5,814 hospitalized children with PCR-confirmed RSV infection were studied to identify predictors of ICU admission. The data includes epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and imaging findings from a retrospective study conducted between July 2022 and April 2025. The study identified respiratory complications, bilateral consolidation on imaging, and prolonged fever duration as key independent risk factors for ICU admission.

Use Cases

• Predicting ICU admission risk in pediatric RSV patients based on clinical characteristics like fever duration and complications.
• Training models to identify high-risk patients early using features such as chest imaging results and respiratory complications.
• Analyzing the association between laboratory findings (e.g., procalcitonin levels) and disease severity in a pediatric cohort.

Strengths

• Includes data from 5,814 hospitalized pediatric patients, a substantial clinical cohort.
• Study design employs multivariable logistic regression to identify statistically significant risk factors (e.g., OR=5.20 for respiratory complications).
• Data covers multiple dimensions: epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and imaging findings.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the underlying analysis tables is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is a 15.0 KB DOCX file, suggesting it contains summary results rather than the raw patient-level data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Chunyun Fu.

Collection Method

Retrospective study of hospitalized children with PCR-confirmed RSV infection.

Time Range

July 2022 to April 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 05:34:04; freshness should be verified.