Clinical and Epidemiological Determinants of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Hospitalized Pediatric Patients

Table 4

Patients’ survival status based on the frequency of hospitalization and underlying disease.

Variables	Survival status
	Survivors () ( (%))	Nonsurvivors () ( (%))	Total (=303) ( (%))
Frequency of hospitalization
First time	181 (67.5)	24 (68.6)	205 (67.7)
Second time	35 (13.1)	2 (5.7)	37 (12.2)
Third time and more	52 (19.4)	9 (25.7)	61 (20.1)
Underlying disease
Yes	156 (58.2)	29 (82.9)	185 (61.1)
No	112 (41.8)	6 (17.1)	118 (38.9)