Patient characteristics and predictors of mortality among children hospitalised with tuberculosis: A six-year case series study in Uganda.
Pauline Mary AmugeGreta Lassance BeckerRogers Nelson SsebunyaEsther NalumansiAlex AdakuMichael JumaJay Brooks JacksonAdeodata Rukyarekere KekitiinwaPeter James ElyanuEric WobudeyaRobert BlountPublished in: PloS one (2024)
In-hospital mortality was high, and significantly driven almost four times higher by TB meningitis, with longer hospital stay among children in urban hospitals. The high in-hospital mortality and long hospital stay may be reduced by timely TB diagnosis and treatment initiation among children.