The code in this repo is associated with this preprint also submitted to Archives of Disease in Childhood.

This study uses deidentified hospital data (REC approval 17/LO/0008) from children who were inpatients at Great Ormond Street Hospital. The data is not publicly available.

What you need to do to reproduce the analysis or re-use the code on your local machine.

Software or packages that needs to be installed and and how to install them.

For example: These scripts were written in R version (4.0.2) and RStudio Version 1.4.971. The following R packages (available on CRAN) are needed:

• tidyverse
• lubridate
• here
• vroom
• scales
• gt
• gtsummary
• flextable
• patchwork
• viridis
• labelled
• patientcounter (github only)

• Emma Vestesson - Twitter - GitHub
• Carlos Alonso
• John Booth
• Neil Sebire - UCL profile
• Adam Steventon - Twitter
• Steve Tomlin
• Joe Standing -UCL profile

This project is licensed under the [MIT License](link to license file).