Introduction: Patient transport remains a necessary facet of today's health care environment and transport conditions bear a major impact on the outcome. There is a recent move in Sri Lanka to establish retrieval teams. Thus, identifying problems faced by the present system will be of utmost importance in development of transport teams. Objective: To evaluate the present system of transportation of sick children to the Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU), Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children (LRH), Colombo. Method: A prospective, descriptive, observational study of transferred patients was conducted at the MICU LRH, Colombo. All children admitted to MICU from 1 st March 2014 to 1 st June 2014 were included in the study. Data was collected using a selfadministered questionnaire. The Wilcoxon significant rank test and the Chi squared test were utilized in statistical analysis. Results: There were 200 patients comprising 105 (52.5%) out-of-hospital transfers and 95 (47.5%) inhospital transfers. Of the admissions, 72% were live discharges while 28% expired; 42.5% of transfers were from the Colombo district. Pneumonia was the ___________________________________________
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