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Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association

Table 1 Patient diagnoses, numbers, and rates of infection during the study period in Cairo University Children’s Hospital, September 2018–March 2019 (n = 611)

From: Patterns of respiratory tract infections in children under 5 years of age in a low–middle-income country

Lower RTI patients

303

Upper RTI patients

308

Patients with diarrheal disease

158

All types of other (non-respiratory) infections

850

Total patients attending outpatients

93600

Estimated population of Greater Cairoa

20485000

Estimated population of Greater Cairo< 5 years of ageb

3072750

Proportion of lower RTI from 100 patients with infection attending outpatients

35.647059

Lower RTI patients per 1000 patients attending outpatients

3.2371795

Lower RTI patients per 1000 patients < 5 years attending outpatients

5.35

Rate of lower RTI among under-fives/100,000

9.86087

  1. Indicators:
  2. –Proportion of patients with a lower RTI to all those with infections attending outpatients = Lower RTI/patients with infection attending outpatient × 100
  3. –Proportion of patients with a lower RTI to all those attending outpatients = Lower RTI/patients attending outpatients × 1000
  4. –Rate of lower RTI in under-fives = Lower RTI/under-fives in a certain year and locality × 100,000
  5. RTI respiratory tract infection
  6. aGreater Cairo population 2019 https://populationstat.com/egypt/cairo
  7. bChildren under 5 years old in Egypt represent about 15% of the total population according to the population pyramid https://www.populationpyramid.net/egypt/2019/
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