Factors Associated With Mortality in Low-Risk Pediatric Critical Care Patients in The Netherlands.

Objective: To determine differences between survivors and nonsurvivors and factors associated with mortality in pediatric intensive care patients with low risk of mortality. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Setting: Patients were selected from a national database including all admissions to the PICUs in The Netherlands between 2006 and 2012. Patients: Patients less than 18 years old admitted to the PICU with a predicted mortality risk lower than 1% according to either the recalibrated Pediatric Risk of Mortality or the Pediatric Index of Mortality 2 were included. Interventions: None. Measurements and Main Results: In total, 16,874 low-risk admissions were included of which 86 patients (0.5%) died. Nonsurvivors had more unplanned admissions (74.4% vs 38.5%; p

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