Figure 1.
Location of MCD cases admitted to Alder Hey 1977–2007.
Maps are of the UK, and of Merseyside only. The location of Alder Hey is clearly highlighted.
Figure 2.
Histograms of numbers of cases by year group of admission.
Cases are stratified by serogroup (A), age group (B), disease type (C) and outcome (D).
Table 1.
Alder Hey meningococcal disease cases by serogroup, age group and admission year group.
Table 2.
Alder Hey meningococcal disease cases by age group and admission year group.
Figure 3.
Smoothed density plot of Townsend scores for the reference population of Merseyside and MCD cases.
The reference population is plotted for 1981 (dashed line), 1991 (dotted line), 2001 (dashed-dotted line). Townsend scores for the cases are represented by a solid line.
Table 3.
Alder Hey meningococcal disease cases by diagnosis and admission year group.
Table 4.
Number and percentage of deaths by diagnosis and admission year group.
Table 5.
Multiple logistic regression model for risk of death.