Association between skin diseases and severe bacterial infections in children: case-control study

BMC Primary Care

Table 2 GP consultation for skin diseases within 14 days prior to hospital admission of cases

Diagnoses	ICPC¹	Cases (N = 101)	GP Controls² (N = 597)	Hospital Controls³ (N = 583)
Pruritis	S02	0	1	0
Rash localized	S06	0	0	1
Skin infection post-traumatic	S11	0	0	1
Insect bite/sting	S12	0	1	0
Burn/scald	S14	0	3	1
Bruise/contusion	S16	0	0	1
Laceration/cut	S18	0	0	1
Dermatophytosis	S74	1	0	1
Moniliasis/candidiasis skin	S75	1	2	4
Naevus/mole	S82	0	0	1
Impetigo	S84	0	1	2
Dermatitis seborrhoeic	S86	0	0	2
Dermatitis/atopic eczema	S87	2	2	4
Dermatitis contact/allergic	S88	0	0	2
Diaper rash	S89	0	0	2
Sebaceous cyst	S93	1	0	0
Molluscum contagiosum	S95	0	1	0
Urticaria	S98	0	0	1

1 = International Classification of Primary Care
2 = control group randomly selected from the general practitioners' (GP) patient lists irrespective of hospital admission and GP consultation
3 = control group randomly sampled from those children who were hospitalized for other reasons than sepsis or bacteraemia

ISSN: 2731-4553