Abstract:Background: Sepsis causes significant paediatric morbidity and mortality in developing countries. This paper describes the outcome of paediatric sepsis in the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Jamaica, using administrative data from hospital records from 2010 to 2014. Objective: To provide baseline data on the burden and outcome of paediatric sepsis in a tertiary institution in Jamaica between 2010 and 2014 so as to embark on initiatives to build capacity to provide care in order to decrease the b… Show more
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